Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries.

Autor/inn/en	Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Manysheva, Kristina; Tertilt, Michèle
Institution	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Universität Mannheim
Titel	Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Geschlechtsspezifische Auswirkungen von COVID-19 in Entwicklungsländern.
Quelle	Bonn (2022), 19 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CRC TR 224 discussion paper series. 332
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Familie; Mutter; Schule; Pandemie; Entwicklungsland; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Beruf; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Krisenmanagement; Unterbrechung; Betrieb; Mann; Nigeria
Abstract	"In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. A force affecting high- and low-income countries alike are increased childcare needs during school closures; in Nigeria, mothers of school-age children experience the largest declines in employment during the pandemic, just as in high-income countries. A key difference is the role of the sectoral distribution of employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly in low-income countries. We conjecture that large income losses without offsetting government transfers drive up labor supply in low-income countries during the recovery." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/3