Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America

Autores
Berniell, Inés; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos; Marchionni, Mariana; Viollaz, Mariana
Año de publicación
2022
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Descripción
This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labormarket entry in a developing region. Using harmonized microdata from national household surveys for 15 Latin American countries, we build a synthetic panel of cohorts that potentially transition from school to work and observe their labor market outcomes 10 years later. We find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In contrast, women from those same unlucky cohorts have higher employment rates and earnings. Our results are consistent with women acting as secondary workers in downturns. We also find that women from unlucky cohorts control a larger share of family income and are more likely to be the head of household 10 years after labor market entry, and that adverse initial labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
Crises
Unemployment
Scarring effects
Gender
Secondary worker
Latin America
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
title Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
spellingShingle Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
Berniell, Inés
Ciencias Económicas
Crises
Unemployment
Scarring effects
Gender
Secondary worker
Latin America
title_short Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
title_full Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
title_fullStr Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
title_sort Lucky Women in Unlucky Cohorts : Gender Differences in the Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions in Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Berniell, Inés
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Viollaz, Mariana
author Berniell, Inés
author_facet Berniell, Inés
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Viollaz, Mariana
author_role author
author2 Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Viollaz, Mariana
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Crises
Unemployment
Scarring effects
Gender
Secondary worker
Latin America
topic Ciencias Económicas
Crises
Unemployment
Scarring effects
Gender
Secondary worker
Latin America
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labormarket entry in a developing region. Using harmonized microdata from national household surveys for 15 Latin American countries, we build a synthetic panel of cohorts that potentially transition from school to work and observe their labor market outcomes 10 years later. We find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In contrast, women from those same unlucky cohorts have higher employment rates and earnings. Our results are consistent with women acting as secondary workers in downturns. We also find that women from unlucky cohorts control a larger share of family income and are more likely to be the head of household 10 years after labor market entry, and that adverse initial labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labormarket entry in a developing region. Using harmonized microdata from national household surveys for 15 Latin American countries, we build a synthetic panel of cohorts that potentially transition from school to work and observe their labor market outcomes 10 years later. We find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In contrast, women from those same unlucky cohorts have higher employment rates and earnings. Our results are consistent with women acting as secondary workers in downturns. We also find that women from unlucky cohorts control a larger share of family income and are more likely to be the head of household 10 years after labor market entry, and that adverse initial labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life.
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