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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 26/21

Klassifikation
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
Thema
Labor Force Participation
Employment
Gender Gap
COVID-19
Childcare

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Shintaro, Yamaguchi
Kawaguchi, Daiji
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(wo)
London
(wann)
2021

Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Shintaro, Yamaguchi
  • Kawaguchi, Daiji
  • Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Entstanden

  • 2021

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