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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014558979
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Gender and education gaps in employment: New evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563943
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Chapter 39 Urban labour markets
Crampton, Graham R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1499-1557). 1999
The large research literature in urban labour market analysis is reviewed, with the emphasis ranging from attempts to model aggregate simultaneous interactions between residential and workplace location to more modern econometric work researching individual labour market behaviour. The job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023960
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Does unemployment responsiveness to output change depend on age, gender, education, and the phase of the business cycle?
Butkus, Mindaugas; Matuzeviciute, Kristina; Rupliene, Dovile - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/98, pp. 1-29
The impact of economic growth on unemployment is commonly agreed and extensively studied. However, how age and gender … apply Okun's law, aiming to estimate age-, gender- and educational attainment level-specific unemployment rate sensitivity … output change on the unemployment rate, supporting higher effects of recessions than that of expansions, we aim to enrich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312044
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The output gap and youth unemployment : an analysis based on Okun’s law
Butkus, Mindaugas; Seputiene, Janina - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/108, pp. 1-17
The impact of economic fluctuations on the total unemployment rate is widely studied, however, with respect to age- and … gender-specific unemployment, this relationship is not so well examined. We apply the gap version of Okun’s law, aiming to … estimate youth unemployment rate sensitivity to output deviations from its potential level. Additionally, we aim to compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132298
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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302606
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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302619
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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274659
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What happens when employers can no longer discriminate in job ads?
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing - 2021
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602976
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Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations
Macchia, Lucía; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain in a society is influenced by the unemployment rate. Method: The study … of the economy. Pain is high when the unemployment rate is high. That is not because of greater pain among people who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012621401