The gender unemployment gap, the difference between female and male unemployment rates, was positive until the early … 1980s. This gap disappeared after 1983, except during recessions, when men's unemployment rate has always exceeded women … for most of the closing of the gender unemployment gap. Evidence from nineteen OECD countries is consistent with this …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …