02092cas a2200337 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021714 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513575926 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Bluedorn, John. Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession : Evidence on 'She-cessions' / John Bluedorn, Francesca Caselli, Niels-Jakob Hansen, Ippei Shibata. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (24 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. Mode of access: Internet Aggregate Human Capital imf Employment imf Intergenerational Income Distribution imf Unemployment imf Wages imf Caselli, Francesca. Hansen, Niels-Jakob. Shibata, Ippei. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/095 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/095/001.2021.issue-095-en.xml IMF e-Library