Abstract

This study examined differences in responses to job loss and job search intensity, based on gender, marital status, age. Among people who unemployed for less than 2 months, 1539 unemployed individuals(1139 man and 400 woman) were responded the on-line survey. The results showed significant gender differences on several aspects. Over all, unemployed women were reported more decline in the psychological and physical well-being as an outcome of unemployment than man ones. Unemployed women showed less informal job-searching activities than unemployed man. There were no significant differences, however, between women and man in the job-searching intensity and formal job-searching activities. In addition, Despite of a not significant difference between man and women in the employment commitment, the unemployed women experienced more the barriers to reemployment and lower self efficacy of job seeking and lower social capital than man ones. Regarding the impact of age and gender in the responses to unemployment and the job searching activities, the results indicated that gender and age had significant, but did not interact. In the job-searching activities, there was little significant interaction between gender and age, or between gender and marital status. Finally, meanings of these results and suggestions for further research were discussed.