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Gender and industry differences in employment cyclicality: evidence over the postwar period
Author(s) -
Shin D
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2000.tb00042.x
Subject(s) - economics , labour economics , period (music) , business cycle , distribution (mathematics) , demographic economics , gender gap , gender discrimination , macroeconomics , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , acoustics
This paper explains how cyclical patterns of employment vary between genders and across industries and how these two factors are related by gender differences in the industry distribution of workers. Evidence shows that men's employment is more procyclical than women's and that men's overrepresentation in highly volatile industries more than accounts for the gender gap in employment cyclicality.