Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession : Evidence on 'She-cessions' /
Early evidence on the pandemic's effects pointed to women's employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to call a 'she-cession.' This paper documents the extent and persistence of this phenomenon in a quarterly sample of 38 advanced and emerging market economies. We...
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| Médium: | Časopis |
| Jazyk: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2021.
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| Edice: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2021/095 |
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| On-line přístup: | Full text available on IMF |
| Shrnutí: | Early evidence on the pandemic's effects pointed to women's employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to call a 'she-cession.' This paper documents the extent and persistence of this phenomenon in a quarterly sample of 38 advanced and emerging market economies. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity across countries, with over half to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women's than men's employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19's effects are typically short-lived, lasting only a quarter or two on average. We also show that she-cessions are strongly related to COVID-19's impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors. |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (24 pages) |
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| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
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