Why Do Women Have Longer Unemployment Durations than Men in Post-Restructuring Urban China?

Fenglian Du, Jian-chun Yang and Xiao-yuan Dong

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Abstract: This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the view that women are less earnest than men in their desire for employment, the analysis shows that women's job search efforts are handicapped by lack of access to social networks, social stereotyping (that married women are unreliable employees), unequal access to social reemployment services stemming from sex segregation prior to the displacement, and wage discrimination in the post-restructuring labor market.

Keywords: Gender inequality; unemployment duration; Oaxaca-decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J21 J64 J71 R20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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