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Gender Gap Evolution in Europe During the Great Recession: an Institutionalist Approach
[L’évolution des inégalités de genre pendant la Grande Récession en Europe : une approche institutionnaliste]

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  • Brunet, Carole
  • Jeffers, Esther

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This paper examines the evolution of labor market gender gaps during the Great Recession in Europe. We focus on participation, employment, part-time, and unemployment gender gaps, and estimate fixed effects models that incorporate social, economic and institutional features of 14 European Union member states from 2003 to 2013. Our results indicate that gender gaps decreased during that time span, particularly during the recession years. Economic growth seems to foster gender inequalities, while more employment in the service sector or in the public sector tends to lower gender gaps. Labor market institutions, such as unionization and minimum wage policies, as well as employment protection for regular contracts, tend to narrow employment inequalities between female and male workers, whereas product market regulation increases gender gaps in participation and employment.

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  • Brunet, Carole & Jeffers, Esther, 2019. "Gender Gap Evolution in Europe During the Great Recession: an Institutionalist Approach [L’évolution des inégalités de genre pendant la Grande Récession en Europe : une approche institutionnaliste]," Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, Association Recherche et Régulation, vol. 25.
    • Handle: RePEc:rvr:journl:2019:14548
    DOI: 10.4000/regulation.14548
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    1. Mari-Isabella Stan, 2022. "The impact of the pandemic crisis on employment in the context of urbanization," Technium Social Sciences Journal, Technium Science, vol. 33(1), pages 492-505, July.

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    gender gap; labor market institutions; product market regulation;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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