Measuring Gender Disparities in Unemployment Dynamics during the Recession: Evidence from Portugal

Joana Passinhas and Isabel Proença ()

No 2019/79, Working Papers REM from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: We research gender differences in unemployment incidence and persistence during the debt crisis in Portugal. A dynamic random effects probit model is estimated to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity and for the ‘initial conditions’ problem. The estimation uses data from four waves of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (ICOR) between 2010 and 2013. We find strong evidence of persistence in unemployment, and an indication that men are more prone to endure the negative implications of previous unemployment. Simultaneously, we found evidence of higher probabilities of unemployment for women through a fixed effect that aimed to capture gender discrimination in an unstable labour market. Results suggest that policies to boost employment should accommodate a gender dimension and also have a special focus on the long-term unemployed.

Keywords: unemployment; persistence; unobserved heterogeneity; dynamic random effects models; gender discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C25 J21 J24 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-04
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Journal Article: Measuring the gender disparities in unemployment dynamics during the recession: evidence from Portugal (2020)
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