Abstract
Article highlights:
- Job loss leads to persistently lower earnings and higher unemployment, but little is known about gender differences.
- Focusing on workers who lost their job due to a plant closure, we examine gender gaps and disentangle the role of child care responsibilities, experience, and education.
- We find that women face a 40–45 percent greater risk of unemployment and lower earnings in the first two years after job loss.
- The majority of the gap remains even when we compare men and women with similar labor market experience and socioeconomic characteristics.
- The gender gap for unemployment risk is more than twice as large when the workers have children.
- If these differences by presence of children did not exist, the earnings gender gap would be half as large, and the employment gender gap would be one-third smaller.
- Job loss leads to persistently lower earnings and higher unemployment, but little is known about gender differences.
- Focusing on workers who lost their job due to a plant closure, we examine gender gaps and disentangle the role of child care responsibilities, experience, and education.
- We find that women face a 40–45 percent greater risk of unemployment and lower earnings in the first two years after job loss.
- The majority of the gap remains even when we compare men and women with similar labor market experience and socioeconomic characteristics.
- The gender gap for unemployment risk is more than twice as large when the workers have children.
- If these differences by presence of children did not exist, the earnings gender gap would be half as large, and the employment gender gap would be one-third smaller.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2 |
| Journal | Employment Research Newsletter |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 5-7 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISSN | 1075-8445 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2023 |
