The gender unemployment gap
By Stefania Albanesi, Aysegul Sahin. Review of economic dynamics (Print), 2013
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The unemployment gender gap, defined as the difference between female and male unemployment rates, was positive until 1980. This gap virtually disappeared after 1980, except during recessions when men's unemployment rate always exceeds women's. We study the evolution of these gender differences in unemployment from a long-run perspective and over the business cycle. Using a calibrated three-state search model of the labor market, we show that the rise in female labor force attachment and the decline in male attachment can mostly account for the closing of the gender unemployment gap. Evidence from nineteen OECD countries also supports the notion that convergence in attachment is associated with a decline in the gender unemployment gap. At the cyclical frequency, we find that gender differences in industry composition are important in recessions, especially the most recent, but they do not explain gender differences in employment growth during recoveries.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, General Health Professions
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1116f407b0c12fee6bab2413273bc75a1b01b09d
Citations in the corpus
- From Mancession to Shecession: Women’s Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions (2021, unknown): “…primary explanations for the countercyclicality of women’s relative labor supply: the distribution of women’s employment by industry and occupation (Albanesi and Şahin 2018; Coskun and Dalgic 2020) and within-family insurance, that is, countercyclical adjustments of women’s labor supply in…”
- This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession (2020, unknown): “Albanesi et al. (2020) also examine the gender breakdown in employment between occupations that are high and low in personal contact, and find that women account for 74 percent of employment in high-contact occupations.”