Journal
FISCAL STUDIES
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 623-651Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12245
Keywords
COVID-19; gender gaps; childcare; time use
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- Nuffield Foundation [WEL/43603]
- ESRC [ES/M010341/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We explore the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and the associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the United Kingdom. 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.
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