Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/172253 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 397
Publisher: 
European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Frankfurt (Oder)
Abstract: 
The unemployment rates, especially youth unemployment rates, increased in various countries of Europe over the last years. This paper examines gender-specific youth unemployment developments in Germany and Poland with Okun's law to test the hypothesis that young male employees are more vulnerable to the business cycle. I estimate gender- and country-specific Okun coefficients for five different age cohorts. The results show that young men are more sensitive to the business cycle, while for women the reaction is less strong. A further examination of the different labour markets regarding genderspecific youth employment results in policy recommendations beyond GDP growth, such as a reduction of the discrepancy in employment protection between permanent and temporary contracts and an approach to maintain youth connected to the labour market.
Subjects: 
Youth Unemployment
Okun's Law
Poland
Germany
JEL: 
E24
E32
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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