Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
October 29, 2020
Summary:
We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. Using data from the Covid-19 supplement of Understanding Society, we find evidence that labour market outcomes of men and women were roughly equally affected at the extensive margin, as measured by the incidence of job loss or furloughing, but if anything women suffered smaller losses at the intensive margin, experiencing slightly smaller changes in hours and earnings. Within the household, women provided on average a larger share of increased childcare needs, but in an important share of households fathers became the primary childcare providers. These distributional consequences of the pandemic may be important to understand its inequality legacy over the longer term.
Published in
Covid Economics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 54 , p.1 -28
Subjects
Links
- https://cepr.org/content/covid-economics-vetted-and-real-time-papers-0#block-block-10
- https://cepr.org/content/covid-economics-vetted-and-real-time-papers-0#block-block-10
- https://cepr.org/file/9906/download?token=OZtUKUbd
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