An analysis of labour transitions in Spain: The (bad) gap is coming back

Authors

  • Diego Dueñas Fernández Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico e Historia e Instituciones Económicas, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, España
  • Carlos Iglesias Fernández Departamento de Economía y Dirección de Empresas, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, España
  • Raquel Llorente Heras Departamento de Análisis Económico, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, España

Keywords:

Unemployment rate, Gender, Labour market flows, Oaxaca-Blinder, Fairlie

Abstract

A methodology is presented in this article on how to calculate the unemployment rates between 2005 and 2015, using male and female labour flow data from the Active Population Flow Survey. The results show that: (i) the unemployment rates have increased as a consequence of the higher transition probabilities from employment to unemployment (up to 2009) and the smaller transition probability from unemployment to employment (up to 2013), and (ii) that women, despite having similar characteristics to men, have a lower probability than men to move from unemployment to employment.

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Published

2017-09-01

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 114 (2017): Pages 191-286 (September-December 2017)

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