Work, care and gender during the COVID-19 crisis

[Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19 is hitting most economies as hard as the deepest recessions, but given the exceptional nature of this crisis, the distribution of jobs and workers affected is potentially different from previous recessions. The Great Recession, as well as other previous downturns, tended to more severely affect male-dominated industries such as construction and manufacturing. As the participation of men and women is different across sectors, the labour market impact of COVID-19 may differ across genders. In this paper, the authors combine evidence on jobs performed by men an... Show more

Authors: Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara

Published: London, England, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, 2020

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 10 p.

Access item: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/abstract.asp?index=7000

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