A Structural Model of the Labor Market to Understand Gender Gaps among Marginalized Roma Communities /

This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53 perce...

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Main Author: Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio
Other Authors: Robayo-Abril, Monica
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2020
Series:Policy research working papers
World Bank e-Library
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520 3 |a This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53 percent and females 17 percent). The analysis uses data from the 2017 Regional Roma Survey for six Western Balkan countries. The simulation results show that the main source for gender differentials in the labor market is the unequal opportunities in favor of males - not gender preferences or differences in home production productivity. Therefore, most of the gender differences in the labor market can be closed by providing wives the same labor market conditions as husbands. Counterfactual policy experiments show that policies that increase the frequency of receiving a job offer, decrease the frequency of laying off workers, and reduce search increase Roma husbands' labor participation. Policies that equalize wages induces more wives to join the labor market and husbands to withdraw from it. This outcome signals that the wage gap is the dimension that deters the greatest number of Roma wives from joining the labor market 
650 4 |a Female Labor Force Participation 
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650 4 |a Gender and Development 
650 4 |a Gender and Poverty 
650 4 |a Gender and Rural Development 
650 4 |a Gender 
650 4 |a Hiring Bias 
650 4 |a Labor Force Participation 
650 4 |a Labor Market 
650 4 |a Labor Markets 
650 4 |a Layoffs 
650 4 |a Marginalized Roma 
650 4 |a Roma 
650 4 |a Rural Development 
650 4 |a Rural Labor Markets 
650 4 |a Social Protections and Labor 
650 4 |a Unemployment 
650 4 |a Western Balkans 
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