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Female Employment and Occupational Changes in the 1990s: How is the EU Performing Relative to the US?

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorDolado, Juan José
dc.contributor.authorFelgueroso, Florentino
dc.contributor.authorJimeno, Juan F.
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:37:12Z
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:37:12Z
dc.date.issued2001-05
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides a comparison of the incidence and composition of female employment both in the EU and in the US. Despite a significant increase in female labour market participation in the EU, about 50% of the difference between the employment rates in the US and the EU can still be attributed to differences in the educational attainments and the employment rates of women aged 25?54. We highlight the main features of female employment in both areas, paying particular attention to the differences across age cohorts and educational levels. Our main findings are as follows: (i) the educational level of the EU female population is slowly converging to that of the US across age cohorts, (ii) the employment rates of less educated women are much lower in the EU than in the US (with the exceptions of the Scandinavian countries) even for women aged 25?34, and (iii) occupational segregation is lower for the younger highly educated women who seem to be entering more typically male occupations and less typically female occupations, although at a higher rate in the US than in the EU.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationEuropean Economic Review, 2001, 45, 4-6, p. 875-889
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00114-3
dc.identifier.issn0014-2921
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/3264
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00114-3
dc.rights©Elsevier
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.jelJ16
dc.subject.jelJ21
dc.subject.jelJ44
dc.subject.otherFemale employment
dc.subject.otherOccupational change
dc.subject.otherOccupational gender segregation
dc.titleFemale Employment and Occupational Changes in the 1990s: How is the EU Performing Relative to the US?
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