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 …

of working life, the expected FLRR and static RR differ by at least 5 percentage points for more than two thirds of women …, and by over 10 percentage points for over a third of women. These results are driven by returns to experience. In contrast … reduce the return to work, with the expected FLPTR and static PTR differing little for most women in our data. This mainly …