| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27660 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27660 |
| This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession | |
| Titan Alon; Matthias Doepke; Jane Olmstead-Rumsey; Michèle Tertilt | |
| 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 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Macroeconomics ; Business Cycles ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27660 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585332 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Titan Alon,Matthias Doepke,Jane Olmstead-Rumsey,et al. This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession. 2020. |
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| w27660.pdf（2356KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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