How the covid-19 lockdown affected gender Inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain

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• dc.contributor.author Farré, Lidia
• dc.contributor.author Fawaz, Yarine
• dc.contributor.author González Luna, Libertad
• dc.contributor.author Graves, Jennifer
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-14T10:09:44Z
• dc.date.available 2024-11-14T10:09:44Z
• dc.date.issued 2020-07-01
• dc.date.modified 2024-11-14T10:04:05Z
• dc.description.abstract The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard by the pandemic and suffered one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe. We collected rich household survey data in early May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers particularly hard. Women were slightly more likely to lose their job than men, and those who remained employed were more likely to work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the inability to outsource. We find that men increased their participation in housework and childcare slightly, but most of the burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1728
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• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68592
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1728
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• dc.subject.keyword covid-19
• dc.subject.keyword gender roles
• dc.subject.keyword labor market
• dc.subject.keyword household work
• dc.subject.keyword childcare
• dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
• dc.title How the covid-19 lockdown affected gender Inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain
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