TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of the gender unemployment gap in Italy and the United Kingdom: A comparative investigation
AU - Mussida, Chiara
AU - Baussola, Maurizio Luigi
AU - Jenkins, Jamie
AU - Penfold, Matthew
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The authors analyse the gender unemployment gap in Italy and the United Kingdom by investigating the determinants of labour market flows, on the basis of multinomial logit model estimates, and identifying the contribution of a single transition from each state – employment, unemployment, inactivity – to the gap. Using this methodology, labour markets in Italy and the United Kingdom are compared, based on both countries' labour force survey data for the period 2004–13. Decomposition of the gender unemployment gap, using a transition probability matrix approach, shows that while women are disadvantaged in Italy, the reverse is true in the United Kingdom.
AB - The authors analyse the gender unemployment gap in Italy and the United Kingdom by investigating the determinants of labour market flows, on the basis of multinomial logit model estimates, and identifying the contribution of a single transition from each state – employment, unemployment, inactivity – to the gap. Using this methodology, labour markets in Italy and the United Kingdom are compared, based on both countries' labour force survey data for the period 2004–13. Decomposition of the gender unemployment gap, using a transition probability matrix approach, shows that while women are disadvantaged in Italy, the reverse is true in the United Kingdom.
KW - unemployed
KW - women workers
KW - unemployed
KW - women workers
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/72012
U2 - 10.1111/j.1564-913X.2015.00028.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1564-913X.2015.00028.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0020-7780
SP - 537
EP - 562
JO - International Labour Review
JF - International Labour Review
ER -