Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Chiara Mussida
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Mussida
Author-Email:  chiara.mussida@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali,DISES, Università Cattolica, Piacenza
Author-Name:  Enrico Fabrizi
Author-X-Name-First: Enrico
Author-X-Name-Last: Fabrizi
Author-Email:  enrico.fabrizi@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, DISES, Università Cattolica, Piacenza
Title:  Unemployment outflows: the relevance of gender, marital status and geographical location across three European countries.
Abstract: In this paper we adopt a three-state representation of the labour market
(employment, unemployment, and inactivity). Using individual -level data
from EU-SILC (European Union - Statistics on Income and Living Conditions)
survey from three countries (France, Italy, Spain), we analyze the determinants
of the moves from one labour market state to another at twelvemonths
time distance. The three countries considered are, to some extent,
similar under many respects: cultural, social, and economic (tight labour markets),
so the paper is aimed at detecting differences in labour markets that may
look similar at first sight. We focus on gender and marital status as potential
sources of discrimination. We explore this, using a multinomial logit model
that includes a series of variables as controls. Our main finding is that gender
and marital status are indeed a source of discrimination in all the three
countries but to different degrees and according to different patterns. Unemployed
women have lower chances to find a job in Italy and Spain, but not in
France. Anyway, in all the three countries women are more likely to loose
their job when employed. Marriage plays an important, and positive, role only
in Italy, where it mitigates the discrimination women are subject and it improves
the situation also for males. It has an adverse effect in Spain, where
married women are worse off than unmarried women, while its effect is limited
in France.
Length:  20 pages
Creation-Date:  2011-01
Publication-Status: under revision
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/dipartimenti/DISES/allegati/dises1066.pdf
File-Format: pdf
File-Function: First version, 2011
Number: dises1066
Classification-JEL: C25, C40, J60
Keywords: Unemployment, Labour Mobility, Multinomial Logit Specifications.
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises1066