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Determinants of the gender unemployment gap in Italy and the United Kingdom: A comparative investigation
Author(s) -
BAUSSOLA Maurizio,
MUSSIDA Chiara,
JENKINS Jamie,
PENFOLD Matthew
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2015.00028.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , multinomial logistic regression , economics , disadvantaged , demographic economics , labour economics , gender gap , kingdom , multinomial distribution , economic growth , econometrics , computer science , paleontology , biology , machine learning
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.