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Unemployment Determinants for Women in Spain
Author(s) -
Lázaro Nieves,
Moltó Marı´a Luisa,
Sánchez Rosario
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00124
Subject(s) - unemployment , economics , duration (music) , demographic economics , labour economics , unemployment rate , economic growth , art , literature
Spain has one of the highest rates of unemployment among OECD countries. Some explanations for this stress the importance of unemployment duration compared with entry rates to the unemployment pool. Long‐term unemployment rates are particularly high among women in Spain. The object of this paper is to investigate the determinants of unemployment duration among women. It will consider personal characteristics (education and age), family background, socio‐economic variables (the number of household earners and household income) and the effect of unemployment benefits, using data from the Household Expenditure Survey 1990–91.