Gender differences in job separation rates and employment stability: New evidence from employer-employee data

Abstract

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Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender

“…Moreover, a recent study by Frederiksen (2008) for private sector employees in Denmark points at the importance of including both information on individuals and workplaces to take account of labour market segregation. 2 Confirming Royalty's results, Frederiksen finds that women are more likely to separate to nonemployment and less likely to make job-to-job transitions, but there is no gender difference in the overall separation rate.…”

“…Building on these insights, this paper utilises linked employer-employee data for western Germany to investigate gender differences in the separations rates to employment and nonemployment. Our data allow us to improve in several ways upon Frederiksen (2008), whose snapshot data -though comprehensive in coverage -only refer to a specific day in November of each year and contain few workplace characteristics (just establishment size and payroll per employee). First, our data set comprises 1 Earlier studies investigating gender differences in overall job separation rates but not distinguishing job separations by destination state include Viscusi (1980), Blau and Kahn (1981), as well as Light and Ureta (1992).…”

“…While all these workplace characteristics turn out to be important determinants of workers' probability of job-to-job moves, they are all absent in previous empirical studies investigating the impact of individual and workplace characteristics on workers' job-to-job and job-to-nonemployment transition behaviour, such as Frederiksen (2008). Apart from the bias stemming from omitting these variables, existing studies do also not account for unobserved factors at the establishment level likely to impact the separation probabilities.…”

Flexicurity and the Economic Crisis 2008-2009

“…At the aggregate level, a number of previous studies (Albaek and Sørensen (1998), Bingley, Eriksson, Werwatz and Westergård-Nielsen (1999), Belzil (2000), Frederiksen (2008)) have documented the existence of large worker flows in the Danish economy, consistent with the notion of a high degree of flexibility.…”

“…Earlier studies (e.g. Frederiksen, 2008) have shown that these components make up only a small fraction of total separations which, moreover, displays little variation over time. Consequently, we have not attempted to identify them in the current exercise.…”