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Gender unemployment gaps: evidence from the new EU member states
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SYSNO ASEP 0342783 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Ostatní články Title Gender unemployment gaps: evidence from the new EU member states Author(s) Bičáková, Alena (NHU-N) RID Source Title CERGE-EI Working Paper Series - ISSN 1211-3298
Roč. 20, č. 2 (2010), s. 41-97Number of pages 57 s. Publication form www - www Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords gender unemployment gap ; labor force participation ; family leave policies Subject RIV AH - Economics R&D Projects GP402/08/P466 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) CEZ AV0Z70850503 - NHU-N (2005-2011) Annotation Using EU LFS data, we analyze gender unemployment gaps in eight new EU member states - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, the three Baltic states and Slovenia - over the last decade. While there are substantial unemployment gaps in the four central European countries and, more recently, also in Slovenia, there is no statistical difference between female and male unemployment rates in the three Baltic states. The estimated cost of having children, in terms of the higher probability of unemployment and lower unemployment to employment transition rate, is the highest in countries with the longest and most substantial drop in the labor force participation of women after childbirth. We show that country differences in family leave policies can explain much of the cross-country variation in the gender unemployment gaps. Workplace Economics Institute Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2010
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