Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227289 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13762
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. 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.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
gender gaps
home production
JEL: 
J13
J16
J22
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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