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The Role of Industry and Occupation in Recent US Unemployment Differentials by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

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  • Marios Michaelides

    (Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus.
    IMPAQ International, LLC, 10420 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 300, Columbia, MD 21044, USA.)

  • Peter R Mueser

    (1] IMPAQ International, LLC, 10420 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 300, Columbia, MD 21044, USA.[2] Department of Economics and Truman School of Public Affairs, 118 Professional Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.)

Abstract

This paper documents historical unemployment trends by gender, race, and ethnicity, and examines the role of the industrial and occupational composition of employment in explaining recent trends. We show that the labor force proportions of women, non-Whites, and Hispanics have increased dramatically over the past 50 years and the unemployment rates for these groups have been converging to those of the rest of the population. We also find that in recent years, underlying differences in the industrial and occupational distributions hide substantial gender, race, and ethnicity differences in the unemployment experience within industry and occupation.

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  • Marios Michaelides & Peter R Mueser, 2013. "The Role of Industry and Occupation in Recent US Unemployment Differentials by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 39(3), pages 358-386.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:easeco:v:39:y:2013:i:3:p:358-386
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    Cited by:

    1. Marc Chan & Marios Michaelides & Sisi Zhang, 2014. "Who Receives Unemployment Insurance?," Research in Applied Economics, Macrothink Institute, vol. 6(3), pages 98-128, September.
    2. Michaelides Marios & Davis Scott, 2020. "From unemployment to self-employment: The role of entrepreneurship training," IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Sciendo & Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 10(1), pages 1-35, March.
    3. Kenneth A. Couch & Robert W. Fairlie & Huanan Xu, 2023. "Racial disparities in unemployment during the COVID‐19 pandemic and recovery: The “stubborn,” the “hiccup,” and the “stall”," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(3), pages 480-495, July.
    4. Peter R. Mueser & Colleen M. Heflin, 2013. "Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program," Working Papers 1318, Department of Economics, University of Missouri.
    5. Hodges, Leslie, 2020. "Do low-income parents who receive unemployment insurance pay more child support?," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).

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