A note on selection and gender unemployment gaps

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11640/17:00483659

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12122-017-9257-4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12122-017-9257-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12122-017-9257-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12122-017-9257-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A note on selection and gender unemployment gaps

Original language description

Previous research has documented the impact of positive selection into employment on the ranking of countries by gender wage gaps. This note focuses on the impact of selection into labor force on cross-country differences in gender unemployment gaps. We construct the Manski bounds for the selection-free gender unemployment gaps in 26 EU countries and show that - without additional assumptions - the observed gender unemployment gaps carry little information about the selection-free gender differences in unemployment. Contrary to the common assumption of positive selection into labor force (similar to positive selection into employment documented in the gender wage gap research), we also point at an example of negative-selection bias. We show that labor force withdrawal of mothers on job-protected family leaves may lead to an overestimation of the selection-free gender unemployment gaps by as much as 1 p.p.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GB14-36154G" target="_blank" >GB14-36154G: Dynamics of change in Czech society</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Labor Research

ISSN

0195-3613

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

428-438

UT code for WoS article

000416148200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85029001287