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Article: Labor market dynamics and trends in male and female unemployment.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1990
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Labor market dynamics and trends in male and female unemployment In the late 1960's and throughout the 1970's, unemployment rate for adult women were much higher than those for adult men. During the 1980's, a decade of generally higher jobless rates, the female-male unemployment rate gap essentially disappeared. (See chart 1.) What were the labor market dynamics that caused this development?
Obviously, changes in a group's jobless rate often would reflect a change in the frequency of job loss. But jobless rates can change without this happening at all. For example, a rise might occur because the unemployed face increased difficulties in finding jobs--and thus ...