Diferencias de género en las tasas de actividad en España e Italia durante la Gran Recesión.

  1. Tindara Addabbo 1
  2. Paula Rodríguez Modroño 2
  3. Lina Gálvez Muñoz 2
  1. 1 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

    Módena, Italia

    ROR https://ror.org/02d4c4y02

  2. 2 Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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    Universidad Pablo de Olavide

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z749649

Journal:
Revista de economía mundial

ISSN: 1576-0162

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 41

Pages: 21-42

Type: Article

More publications in: Revista de economía mundial

Abstract

This article analyzes gender differences in the decision to participate in the labor market under the economic crisis that derive from differences in women’s position in the job structure, the family and the welfare economy. In order to test the behavior of male and female labor supply in Spain and Italy, we estimate labor supply models for women and men living in couples. The results show a strong countercyclical added-worker effect for women, in contrast with a procyclical discouraged-worker effect for men. Though the added-worker effect prevails for women in Spain, in Italy the discouraged worker effect dominates.

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