Research Note: Gender Differences in Employment During the COVID-19 Epidemic.

ABSTRACT: We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on gender disparities in three employment outcomes: labor force participation, full-time employment, and unemployment. Using data from the monthly Current Population Survey, in this research note we test individual fixed-effects models to examine the employment status of women relative to that of men in the nine months following the onset of the epidemic in March of 2020. We also test separate models to examine differences between women and men based on the presence of young children. Because the economic effects of the epidemic coincided with the summer months, when women's employment often declines, we account for seasonality in women's employment status. After doing so, we find that women's full-time employment did not decline significa

SUBMITTER: Villarreal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11784595 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature