Arbeitspapier

More than a She-recession: Long-term feminization and short-term pandemic effects

The Covid-19 crisis has been defined as a "She-recession" because of its disproportionate impact on female employment by contrast to past recessions defined as "Man-recessions", for the usual disproportionate impact on men. The roots of the She-recession can be however traced back to the persistence of gender asymmetries both intra-household and extra-household in the labour market, a phenomenon known as feminization. This paper aims at measuring and explaining the gender differences in the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the Italian labour market from a macroeconomic perspective. We measure the duration, depth and diffusion of the Covid-19 crisis on job losses, structural unemployment and inactivity. We find that the impact of the Covid-19 crisis has been more than proportional for women, especially for low educated female workers and working in the South during 2020.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1291

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Subject
feminization
hysteresis
labour markets

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Nelli, Linnea
Virgillito, Maria Enrica
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(where)
Essen
(when)
2023

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Nelli, Linnea
  • Virgillito, Maria Enrica
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Time of origin

  • 2023

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