Gender unemployment gaps in the EU: blame the family

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 1 Sample size

Country	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Austria	25,217	24,770	23,539	19,338	21,933	21,526	21,848
Belgium	10,333	11,770	11,549	12,289	12,172	12,148	11,637
Czech Republic	24,919	26,254	25,678	26,265	25,929	25,915	25,639
Estonia	2097	1979	1942	1823	1777	2035	2405
Finland	17,410	17,217	16,670	16,032	15,628	14,967	14,739
France	74,362	72,526	35,522	35,340	34,866	33,239	34,812
Germany		138,646	139,676	137,609	71,044	6747	4175
Greece	32,404	31,049	29,244	33,202	32,243	30,954	29,745
Hungary	34,500	34,003	36,993	34,517	32,109	31,727	31,333
Ireland	42,766	43,372	41,651	35,395	37,441	35,381	34,905
Italy	84,716	83,354	81,599	71,373	72,972	70,056	68,244
Latvia	7535	2461	2445	2504	2310	1918	3565
Lithuania	3899	5404	5043	5085	4991	4566	7148
Luxembourg	6439	5715	7089	9194	9765	9373	2206
Netherlands	44,642	47,773	46,826	54,695	55,073	56,644	51,300
Poland	24,195	24,421	24,464	24,075	23,066	22,208	21,023
Portugal	17,528	17,507	18,265	20,772	19,386	17,825	16,903
Slovakia	12,867	12,190	12,274	12,058	12,122	11,897	11,409
Slovenia	8976	9074	9255	8658	8139	7830	7642
Spain	72,175	72,307	73,771	74,186	65,892	69,103	71,495
United Kingdom	56,294	56,168	53,074	50,490	49,589	48,318	47,712