Youth and gender in the labour market

Abstract

This is a Final Degree Dissertation (FDD) that examines the gender inequalities in the different possibilities of labor insertion of young people in Spain. The problem of unemployment is one of the most relevant issues of citizens. In the theoretical part, the literature related to gender and youth in the Spanish labor market is synthesized while in the empirical part, the impact of the chosen factors on the employability situation is examined. For this purpose, different econometric models are used, which are explained and studied in the methodological part of the paper. To carry out the analysis, the data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) for the last quarter of 2019 provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE) has been considered, from which the most significant variables have been chosen. English