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

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dc.contributor.authorSalazar-Saenz, Mauricio
dc.contributor.authorRobayo-Abril, Monica
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-18T13:56:28Z
dc.date.available2020-09-18T13:56:28Z
dc.date.issued2020-09
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/656651600182143076/A-Structural-Model-of-the-Labor-Market-to-Understand-Gender-Gaps-among-Marginalized-Roma-Communities
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9398
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34484
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9398
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER GAP
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectLABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectROMA
dc.subjectMARGINALIZED ROMA
dc.subjectUNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectWESTERN BALKANS
dc.subjectHIRING BIAS
dc.subjectLAYOFFS
dc.subjectFEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.titleA Structural Model of the Labor Market to Understand Gender Gaps among Marginalized Roma Communitiesen
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okr.crossref.titleA Structural Model of the Labor Market to Understand Gender Gaps among Marginalized Roma Communities
okr.date.disclosure2020-09-15
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/656651600182143076/A-Structural-Model-of-the-Labor-Market-to-Understand-Gender-Gaps-among-Marginalized-Roma-Communities
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9398
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okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.region.geographicalEastern Europe
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okr.statistics.drstats1092
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Poverty
okr.topicGender::Gender and Rural Development
okr.topicRural Development::Rural Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitPoverty and Equity Global Practice
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