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abstract: 'Purpose - The measurement and comparison across countries of female
conditions in labour market and gender gap in employment is a very
complex task, given both its multidimensional nature and the different
scenarios in terms of economic, social and cultural characteristics. The
paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach - At this aim, different information about
presence and engagement of women in labour market, gender pay gap,
segregation, discrimination and human capital characteristics was
combined and a ranking of 26 European countries is proposed through the
composite indicator methodology. It satisfies the need to benchmark
national gender gaps, grouping together economic, political and
educational dimensions.
Findings - The results show that female conditions in labour market are
the best in Scandinavian countries and Ireland while many Eastern and
Southern European countries result at the bottom of classification.
Research limitations/implications - In order to take into account the
subjectivity of some choices in composite indicator construction and to
test robustness of results, different aggregation techniques were
applied.
Practical implications - The authors hope that this new index will
stimulate the release of a sort of best practices useful to close labour
market gaps, starting from best countries'' scenarios, and the launching
of pilot gender parity task forces, as it happened with the Global
Gender Gap Index in some countries. Finally, relating gender gap indexes
with country policies frameworks for gender inequalities and the
connected policy outcomes, it is possible to evaluate their
effectiveness and to identify the most adequate initiatives to undertake
because policies reducing gender gaps can significantly improve economic
growth and standard of living.
Social implications - The analysis gives a contribution in the
evaluation of the policies and regulations effectiveness at national
level considering the existing welfare regimes and the associated gaps
in labour market. It can help policy makers to understand the
ramifications of gaps between women and men. The Gender Gap Labour
Market Index is constrained by the need for international comparability,
but limiting its analysis to European countries; it has been based on ad
hoc indicators concerning developed economies and could be readily
adapted for use at the national and local levels.
Originality/value - In this paper the authors propose a new composite
indicator index specifically focused on gender gap in labour market.
Several papers analysed gender differences in wages, employment or
segregation, but few of them consider them together, allowing to get a
satisfactory informative picture on gender inequalities in labour market
and studying in deep its multiple aspects, including discrimination
indicators ad hoc calculated, giving to policy makers an useful tool to
evaluate female employees conditions and put them in relation with the
different input factors existing within each country.'
affiliation: 'Rocca, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Naples Parthenope, Dept Stat \&
Math Econ Res, Via Medina 40, I-80133 Naples, Italy.
Castellano, Rosalia; Rocca, Antonella, Univ Naples Parthenope, Dept Stat \& Math
Econ Res, I-80133 Naples, Italy.'
author: Castellano, Rosalia and Rocca, Antonella
author-email: rocca@uniparthenope.it
author_list:
- family: Castellano
given: Rosalia
- family: Rocca
given: Antonella
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1108/IJM-07-2012-0107
eissn: 1758-6577
files: []
issn: 0143-7720
journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER
keywords: 'Labour market; Gender gap; Discrimination in employment; Composite
indicator'
keywords-plus: PAY
language: English
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '41'
orcid-numbers: Rocca, Antonella/0000-0001-8171-3149
pages: 345-367
papis_id: 8cb8e1c4062cd2a140e1b59eb78598e1
ref: Castellano2014gendergap
researcherid-numbers: Rocca, Antonella/T-6420-2017
times-cited: '8'
title: Gender gap and labour market participation A composite indicator for the ranking
of European countries
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000341870100008
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '37'
volume: '35'
web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor; Management
year: '2014'