| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP4294 |
| DP4294 Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration | |
| Anthony Venables; James Harrigan | |
| 发表日期 | 2004-03-23 |
| 出版年 | 2004 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There is an enormous literature on gender gaps in pay and labour market participation but virtually no literature on gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no gender gap in unemployment, there are others in which the female unemployment rate is substantially above the male. Although it is easy to give plausible reasons for why more women than men may decide not to want work, it is not so obvious why, once they have decided they want a job, women in some countries are less likely to be in employment than men. This is the subject of this Paper. We show that, in countries where there is a large gender gap in unemployment rates, there is a gender gap in both flows from employment into unemployment and from unemployment into employment. We investigate different hypotheses about the sources of these gaps. Most hypotheses find little support in the data and the gender gap in unemployment rates (like the gender gap in pay) remains largely unexplained. But it does seem to correlate with attitudes on whether men are more deserving of work than women so that discrimination against women may explain part of the gender gap in unemployment rates in the Mediterranean countries. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Gender gap Unemployment rates |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp4294 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533255 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anthony Venables,James Harrigan. DP4294 Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration. 2004. |
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