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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15149
	DP15149 This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in a Pandemic Recession
	Michele Tertilt; Matthias Doepke; Jane Olmstead-Rumsey
发表日期	2020-08-10
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their employment is concentrated in heavily affected sectors such as restaurants, and due to increased childcare needs caused by school and daycare closures, preventing many women from working. We analyze the repercussions of this trend using a quantitative macroeconomic model featuring heterogeneity in gender, marital status, childcare needs, and human capital. Our quantitative analysis suggests that a pandemic recession will i) feature a strong transmission from employment to aggregate demand due to diminished within-household insurance; ii) result in a widening of the gender wage gap throughout the recovery; and iii) contribute to a weakening of the gender norms that currently produce a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in home work and childcare.
主题	Labour Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth
关键词	Covid-19 Pandemics Recessions Business cycle Gender equality School closures Childcare Gender wage gap
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15149
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544117
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michele Tertilt,Matthias Doepke,Jane Olmstead-Rumsey. DP15149 This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in a Pandemic Recession. 2020.