We examine the level of persistence in the gender unemployment gap in eight OECD countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. We use a new measure for the gender unemployment gap, namely, the ratio of the female to male unemployment rate. Our...

Montañés, Olloqui, and Calvo (2005, Journal of Econometrics) argue that use of the Perron-type minimum t-statistics will lead the practitioner to incorrectly assess the time series properties of the variable under investigation when the form of break is misspecified. However, their simulations...

We examine the level of persistence in the unemployment gap across both race and gender in the United States. The empirical evidence suggests that all unemployment gaps exhibit low levels of persistence. While the gender unemployment gap has disappeared and stabilized in the post–1980...

We present empirical evidence regarding differences in unemployment dynamics across gender for a group of twenty-three OECD countries. Our results indicate that there are substantial differences in the unemployment persistence for men and women across countries. Further, the female unemployment...

We examine the level of persistence in the gender unemployment gap in eight OECD countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. We use a new measure for the gender unemployment gap, namely, the ratio of the female to male unemployment rate. Our...

Montañés, Olloqui, and Calvo (2005, Journal of Econometrics) argue that use of the Perron-type minimum t-statistics will lead the practitioner to incorrectly assess the time series properties of the variable under investigation when the form of break is misspecified. However, their simulations...