The changing nature of gender selection into employment over the Great Recession

Juan Dolado, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Linas Tarasonis

No 58, Bank of Lithuania Working Paper Series from Bank of Lithuania

Abstract: The Great Recession has strongly influenced employment patterns across skill and gender groups. This paper analyzes how the resulting changes in non-employment have affected selection into jobs and hence gender wage gaps. Using data for the European Union, we show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has become positive. This is particularly so in Southern Europe, where dramatic drops in male unskilled employment have taken place during the crisis. As regards female selection, traditionally positive, we document two distinct effects. An added-worker effect has increased female labour force participation and hence reduced selection in some countries. In others, selection has become even more positive as a result of adverse labour demand shifts in industries which are intensive in temporary work, a type of contract in which women are over-represented. Overall, our results indicate that selection has become more important among men and less so among women, thus changing traditional gender patterns and calling for a systematic consideration of male non-employment when studying gender wage gaps.

Keywords: Sample selection; gender wage gaps; gender employment gaps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2019-01-14
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