Original title: Selection into labor force and gender unemployment gaps
Authors: Bičáková, Alena
Document type: Research reports
Year: 2014
Language: eng
Series: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, volume: 513
Abstract: This paper sets the groundwork for analysis of the effect of selection into labor force on gender unemployment gaps. We derive the Manski bounds for gender unemployment gaps in 21 EU countries and show that in addition to the positive selection documented in the gender wage gap research, there is also evidence of negative selection into the labor force among women after childbirth. While positive selection of women into the labor force leads to downward bias in gender unemployment gaps, negative selection results in overestimation of gender unemployment gaps.
Keywords: gender unemployment gaps; labor force participation; selection

Institution: Economics Institute AS ČR (web)
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External URL: http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp513.pdf
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0228138

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