How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey

In this article we use survey data from the Balkan countries and Turkey to document the presence of gender gaps in the labor market and examine its economic consequences in terms of aggregate income per capita. We first show that the age of women in the labor force, as well as in the categories of e...

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Main Authors:	Cuberes, David, Muñoz Boudet, Ana Maria, Teignier, Marc
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2019
Subjects:	PRODUCTIVITY FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS GENDER GAP FACTOR ALLOCATION GENDER INEQUALITY SPAN OF CONTROL BALKANS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31269

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spelling	okr-10986-312692021-05-25T10:54:36Z How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey Cuberes, David Muñoz Boudet, Ana Maria Teignier, Marc PRODUCTIVITY FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS GENDER GAP FACTOR ALLOCATION GENDER INEQUALITY SPAN OF CONTROL BALKANS In this article we use survey data from the Balkan countries and Turkey to document the presence of gender gaps in the labor market and examine its economic consequences in terms of aggregate income per capita. We first show that the age of women in the labor force, as well as in the categories of employers and self-employed, are clearly below the corresponding figures for men. These gender inequalities display a slightly negative time trend and are present in all age groups, with the middle-age group displaying the lowest inequality in terms of labor force participation but the largest inequality in terms of employers share. Using a theoretical framework we calculate that, on average, the loss associated with these gaps is about 20% of income per capita. Taking into account that the weight of each age group in the total population is different, we find that the aggregate costs associated with each age group are quite similar on average. 2019-02-13T19:18:33Z 2019-02-13T19:18:33Z 2019-01-16 Journal Article Eastern European Economics 0012-8775 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31269 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia Eastern Europe Turkey
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topic	PRODUCTIVITY FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS GENDER GAP FACTOR ALLOCATION GENDER INEQUALITY SPAN OF CONTROL BALKANS
spellingShingle	PRODUCTIVITY FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS GENDER GAP FACTOR ALLOCATION GENDER INEQUALITY SPAN OF CONTROL BALKANS Cuberes, David Muñoz Boudet, Ana Maria Teignier, Marc How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey
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description	In this article we use survey data from the Balkan countries and Turkey to document the presence of gender gaps in the labor market and examine its economic consequences in terms of aggregate income per capita. We first show that the age of women in the labor force, as well as in the categories of employers and self-employed, are clearly below the corresponding figures for men. These gender inequalities display a slightly negative time trend and are present in all age groups, with the middle-age group displaying the lowest inequality in terms of labor force participation but the largest inequality in terms of employers share. Using a theoretical framework we calculate that, on average, the loss associated with these gaps is about 20% of income per capita. Taking into account that the weight of each age group in the total population is different, we find that the aggregate costs associated with each age group are quite similar on average.
format	Journal Article
author	Cuberes, David Muñoz Boudet, Ana Maria Teignier, Marc
author_facet	Cuberes, David Muñoz Boudet, Ana Maria Teignier, Marc
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title	How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey
title_short	How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey
title_full	How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey
title_fullStr	How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey
title_full_unstemmed	How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey
title_sort	how costly are labor gender gaps? estimates by age group for the balkans and turkey
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey

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