The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …

distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a … Covid-19 social distancing risk falls disproportionately on vulnerable workforce groups, such as women, older employees, non … pandemic …

The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and … families with young children have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare. Women have been doing the greater … share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …

men and women in April, to recover in August, but not to the pre-pandemic levels. The paper also examines available income … (employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …

The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care … work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in … perceived very differently by mothers and fathers, a difference that also increased during the pandemic …

nonlinearity: an additional woman accelerates the expansion of child care only in councils with few women. Council meeting minutes … reveal that women can be effective in councils despite being a non-pivotal minority because they change "the conversation" …