Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession: Evidence on “She-cessions”

  • Bluedorn J
  • Hansen N
  • Shibata I
  • et al.
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Abstract

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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Bluedorn, J., Hansen, N.-J., Shibata, I., Caselli, F., & Mendes Tavares, M. (2021). Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession: Evidence on “She-cessions.” IMF Working Papers, 2021(095), 1. https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513575926.001

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