Women's unemployment during transition Evidence from Czech and Slovak micro-data |
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| Authors: | John C Ham Jan Svejnar & Katherine Terrell |
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| Institution: | Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA,;University of Michigan Business School;Department of Economics, University of Michigan, USA, and CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic,;University of Michigan Business School, and The School ofPublic Policy, University of Michigan, USA |
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| Abstract: | We analyse women’s weekly probabilities of leaving unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics (CR and SR) in order to investigate three questions: 1) Why are unemployment rates much lower in the CR than the SR?; 2) Does the unemployment compensation scheme (UCS) substantially lengthen unemploy-mentspells?; and 3) Why are women’s unemployment rates higher than men’s? We find that differences in the behaviour of the individuals, employers and institutions in the SR and CR (as measured by differences in coefficients) play a larger role in determining the CR’s shorter female unemployment spells than do differences in measured demand and demographic variables. The UCS has only a moderate effect on duration and its impact is greater in the CR. The differences between men’s and women’s spells (in each republic) are explained more by differences in coefficients than by differences in observed characteristics. JEL classification: C41, H53, J23, J64, O15, P2. |
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| Keywords: | Czech Rep Slovak Rep unemployment duration unemployment policy |
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