Arbeitspapier
COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased childcare responsibilities caused a sharp decline in mothers' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after school reopening. In contrast to women, the employment rate of married men with children was not affected, which hindered progress in narrowing the employment gender gap.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14711
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- Subject
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labor force participation
employment
gender gap
COVID-19
childcare
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Fukai, Taiyo
Ikeda, Masato
Kawaguchi, Daiji
Yamaguchi, Shintaro
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Fukai, Taiyo
- Ikeda, Masato
- Kawaguchi, Daiji
- Yamaguchi, Shintaro
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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