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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1291
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
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feminization
hysteresis
labour markets
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Nelli, Linnea
Virgillito, Maria Enrica
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Veröffentlichung
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
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Essen
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Nelli, Linnea
- Virgillito, Maria Enrica
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Time of origin
- 2023