Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States
- Autor(en)
- Caroline Berghammer, Alicia Adserà
- Abstrakt
We study how the education gap in unemployment has evolved by gender and age groupsacross 28 European countries and the United States from 2000 to 2014, using theEuropean Union’s Labour Force Surveys and the US Current Population Surveys. Duringand after the Great Recession, the absolute education gap in unemployment expanded inalmost all countries, which was mainly driven by a marked increase in the unemploymentrisk among low educated men. A two-step multilevel analysis confirmed the negative relation-ship between the education gap and both (lagged) GDP growth and GDP level. Further, insti-tutional labour market features moderated the impact of the business cycle. A higher share oftemporary employment boosted employment for less educated persons, thusflattening theeducation gradient in unemployment, while a larger public sector somewhat protectedmore highly educated individuals against unemployment. The gap for young workers waslarge in settings with strict regular contract regulations.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Soziologie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Princeton University
- Journal
- Acta Sociologica
- Band
- 65
- Seiten
- 374-397
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 24
- ISSN
- 0001-6993
- Publikationsdatum
- 03-2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 504005 Bildungssoziologie, 504002 Arbeitssoziologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Sociology and Political Science
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 8 – Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/growing-inequality-during-the-great-recession-labour-market-institutions-and-the-education-gap-in-unemployment-across-europe-and-in-the-united-states(eb2d3214-2cd1-4bbf-9635-543babee1168).html