The Role of Gender and Childcare Responsibility on the Impact of Covid-19 on Employment - A Comparative Study by Gender Equality Index Across EU27 Countries
(2021) EKHS22 20211Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- Research on employment and Covid-19 has shown that women across the world have shouldered many negative socioeconomic consequences of the current global pandemic. This study looks at the relationship between gender, having children, and living with a partner, and the likelihood of losing employment or experiencing a decrease in paid working hours during the first wave of Covid-19 in the EU27 countries. The empirical analysis relies on the Eurofund “Living, Working, and Covid-19” survey, which was launched online on the 9th of April 2020, when many of the Member States were in lockdown, coupled with the Gender Equality Index of each Member State, to conduct a series of logistic regressions. The results for the overall sample show that women... (More)
- Research on employment and Covid-19 has shown that women across the world have shouldered many negative socioeconomic consequences of the current global pandemic. This study looks at the relationship between gender, having children, and living with a partner, and the likelihood of losing employment or experiencing a decrease in paid working hours during the first wave of Covid-19 in the EU27 countries. The empirical analysis relies on the Eurofund “Living, Working, and Covid-19” survey, which was launched online on the 9th of April 2020, when many of the Member States were in lockdown, coupled with the Gender Equality Index of each Member State, to conduct a series of logistic regressions. The results for the overall sample show that women were less likely to lose employment but more likely to experience reductions in paid working hours than men. When the sample is further restricted to parents, no gender differences can be observed. While the analysis fails to uncover strong gender differences, having young children is found to be correlated with a lower likelihood of losing employment on one hand, and a higher likelihood of experiencing reductions in working hours. This effect is driven by Mid GEI countries. Lastly, living with a partner is strongly associated with a lower likelihood of losing employment (effect detected in all GEI groups) and experiencing a reduction in working hours (driven by Mid GEI countries). These results suggest that having children and family composition are better predictors of employment losses and reductions in paid working hours than gender for the sample analyzed. (Less)
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- Mancuso, Jessica LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHS22 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Covid-19 Female Employment Childcare Gender-Equality
- language
- English
- id
- 9056453
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- 2021-08-26 10:48:16
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@misc{9056453,
abstract = {{Research on employment and Covid-19 has shown that women across the world have shouldered many negative socioeconomic consequences of the current global pandemic. This study looks at the relationship between gender, having children, and living with a partner, and the likelihood of losing employment or experiencing a decrease in paid working hours during the first wave of Covid-19 in the EU27 countries. The empirical analysis relies on the Eurofund “Living, Working, and Covid-19” survey, which was launched online on the 9th of April 2020, when many of the Member States were in lockdown, coupled with the Gender Equality Index of each Member State, to conduct a series of logistic regressions. The results for the overall sample show that women were less likely to lose employment but more likely to experience reductions in paid working hours than men. When the sample is further restricted to parents, no gender differences can be observed. While the analysis fails to uncover strong gender differences, having young children is found to be correlated with a lower likelihood of losing employment on one hand, and a higher likelihood of experiencing reductions in working hours. This effect is driven by Mid GEI countries. Lastly, living with a partner is strongly associated with a lower likelihood of losing employment (effect detected in all GEI groups) and experiencing a reduction in working hours (driven by Mid GEI countries). These results suggest that having children and family composition are better predictors of employment losses and reductions in paid working hours than gender for the sample analyzed.}},
author = {{Mancuso, Jessica}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The Role of Gender and Childcare Responsibility on the Impact of Covid-19 on Employment - A Comparative Study by Gender Equality Index Across EU27 Countries}},
year = {{2021}},
}