Gender unemployment gaps in the EU: blame the family

Alena Bičáková ve svém empirickém článku publikovaném v časopise IZA Journal of European Labor Studies ukazuje, že věci se nedějí jen tak, ale že spolu souvisí. A že třeba souvisí nastavení mateřské a rodičovské s tím, jak velké jsou rozdíly mezi mírou nezaměstnanosti mužů a žen. Abstract: There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is primarily driven by the differences in female labor force participation behavior after childbirth, namely, the family leave duration and the subsequent attachment of women to the labor force. Further, in countries where a high share of women permanently withdraw from the labor force after childbirth, the size of gender differences in unemployment strongly correlates with the Eurobarometer measure of perceived overall gender discrimination. 

Field-of-study homogamy: Evidence from the EU: new research spin-off blog from Alena Bičáková and Štěpán Jurajda

Positive assortative matching between college graduates has been well documented in marriage markets. Using European survey data, this column explores whether graduates form couples within their field of study. A third of married or cohabiting graduate couples both studied within the same field. These results are driven in part by assortative matching, and there are notable differences across fields of study as well as across countries.

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Figure 1. The Gender Gap Index and FSH-potential utilisation rate (H/H(P))

 Note: The Gender Gap Index, generated by the World Economic Forum, reflects economic and political opportunities, education, and well-being for women. The highest possible GGI score is 1 (equality) and the lowest possible score is 0 (inequality).