Unemployment, cycle and gender

Peiró, Amado; Belaire‐Franch, Jorge; Gonzalo, Maria Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.jmacro.2012.06.005

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“…Countries that have expanded their female-intensive manufacturing and services sectors have experienced economic growth, as predicted by these models (Seguino 2000;Ross 2008;Humphries and Sarasúa 2012). Recent evidence highlights the role of women's labor force participation in economic diversification (Kazandjian et al 2019), as well as recovery from business cycle downturns (Peiró, Belaire-Franch, and Gonzalo 2012;Fukui, Nakamura, and Steinsson 2019). Causal pathways between women's employment and economic performance, however, are however difficult to identify at the level of entire countries.…”

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The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

Gammage¹,

Joshi

Rodgers

2019

Feminist Economics

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This article examines the connections between women's reproductive health, care responsibilities, and the quality of work. The research suggests that the economic empowerment of women, manifest in their choice of where and when to work, and of the terms and conditions of that work, is intimately linked to reproductive empowerment and reproductive outcomes. Simplistic discourse in development policy about educating girls and getting women into the labor force will not translate into goals being met unless attention is paid to women's reproductive health and rights. This analysis highlights the data limitations inherent in existing surveys that frustrate a more-nuanced inquiry into employment and fertility outcomes. Analysts and statistical agencies responsible for household and labor force survey design could certainly apply some of the information they gain from questions that elicit retrospective histories of contraception and fertility to inform their interpretations of women's employment history, job quality, and labor market intermittency.

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The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

Gammage¹,

Joshi

Rodgers

2019

Feminist Economics

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“…Hoynes et al (2012) examine the labor market effects of the recent recession in the US and identify dramatic differences across various demographic groups, especially men and women. Peiro et al (2012) analyze the relationship between male and female unemployment and the business cycle in the UK and the US providing evidence of a strong association between gender unemployment and cyclical factors. Ewing et al (2005) stress the importance of analyzing the time series behavior of disaggregated unemployment rates and show, using nonlinear time-series techniques the differential effects of unanticipated shocks on unemployment rates of various demographic groups.…”

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Unemployment by Gender: Evidence from EU Countries

Bakas

Papapetrou

2013

Int Adv Econ Res

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This paper applies panel unit-root tests that allow for structural breaks and cross-sectional dependence to examine the validity of hysteresis in gender unemployment rates and gender unemployment gap for a panel of 15 European countries. Addressing breaks, there is evidence to reject the null hypothesis of hysteresis for the unemployment rates and unemployment gap series. Allowing for both cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneous structural breaks this result is reverted and we fail to reject the null hypothesis of unit root.

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“…2 The majority of these have described or estimated this indirectly, or with limited attention to the UK. Peiro et al (2012) estimated directly a relationship between changes in unemployment rates and a cyclical component of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the UK and US, finding that the business cycle extends its influence on unemployment rates over several quarters, and does so more intensely for men than women. extended this analysis further, decomposing a gendered output gap identity, and estimating an implied model comprising cyclical components of GDP and labor market outcomes for the US and UK, from 1948 and 1971 respectively.…”

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“…The employment rate gap is pro-cyclical. The jobs growth of men appears to be more sensitive to the economic cycle than for women (Amado Peiro, Jorge Belaire-Franch andMaria Teresa Gonzalo, 2012, Giovanni Razzu andCarl Singleton, 2016). The Great Recession has certainly reminded us of the importance of understanding the behavior of labor markets over the economic cycle.…”

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Segregation and Gender Gaps in the United Kingdom's Great Recession and Recovery

Razzu

Singleton

2018

Feminist Economics

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This article assesses the role of segregation in explaining gender employment gaps through the UK's Great Recession and its subsequent period of recovery and fiscal austerity. First, we reaffirm that UK gender gaps respond more generally to the business cycle. Although there are many potential explanations of this fact, we test the simplest. Is this because of the extent of segregation in work? Our counterfactual-type analysis accounts for the specific role of combined gender segregation across industry sectors and occupations that existed at the onset of the Great Recession. The results contradict the existing narrative that men's employment was more harshly affected than women's employment; segregation accounts for over two and a half times the actual fall in the gender gap between 2007 and 2011.

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Unemployment, cycle and gender

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

Unemployment by Gender: Evidence from EU Countries

Segregation and Gender Gaps in the United Kingdom's Great Recession and Recovery

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