Youth and gender-specific unemployment and Okun's law in Germany and Poland

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The unemployment rates, especially youth unemployment rates, increased in various countries of Europe over the last years. This paper examines gender-specific youth unemployment developments in Germany and Poland with Okun's law to test the hypothesis that young male employees are more vulnerable to the business cycle. I estimate gender- and country-specific Okun coefficients for five different age cohorts. The results show that young men are more sensitive to the business cycle, while for women the reaction is less strong. A further examination of the different labour markets regarding genderspecific youth employment results in policy recommendations beyond GDP growth, such as a reduction of the discrepancy in employment protection between permanent and temporary contracts and an approach to maintain youth connected to the labour market.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 397

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Thema: Youth Unemployment ; Okun's Law ; Poland ; Germany

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dunsch, Sophie
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics
• (wo): Frankfurt (Oder)
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/172253
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ