Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34210 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2115
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU-countries with different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these countries, women's determinants of labor market transitions are compared by means of pooled multinominal logit-regressions. The outcomes hint at both, the importance of socio-economic determinants, like the life cycle or human capital, but also address gender related differences in the paths of labor market transitions. Clearly, the observed cross-national differences are driven by specific national institutional settings. Among others, one of the most crucial features is the day-care infrastructure concerning children, which either fosters or restricts a sustainable risk management between family and work in the respective countries.
Subjects: 
labor supply
labor market transitions
socio-economic determinants
institutional settings
risk management
cross-national comparison
JEL: 
J21
J22
J78
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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