The motherhood penalty and The fatherhood premium in employment during covid-19: evidence from The united states.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we present evidence from the Current Population Survey examining the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on parental status and gender inequalities in employment in the United States. We show that the drop in the employment rate in post-outbreak months was largely driven by mass layoffs and not by workers quitting their jobs. Results from fixed-effects regression models show a strong fatherhood premium in the likelihood of being laid off for post-outbreak months compared to mothers, men without children, and women without children. We also found that the "fatherhood premium" was higher among lower-educated and mid-educated workers. These findings show that gaps in layoff rates exacerbated pre-existing forms of parental status and gender inequality in employment. Possible mechanis

SUBMITTER: Dias FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7431363 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature