Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228348 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 797
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 has amplified existing gender divisions that disadvantage women. What is the appropriate unit of analysis to study the gendered impact of a pandemic? The study of gendered inequality - especially labor market opportunities and outcomes - has for the large part relied on population wide differences between men and women. Using over four decades of global data (n =2.85 million couple units, from 45 countries in the LIS repository) we show that intra-household earnings inequality within a household is systemic, prevalent across disparate societies, and across the entire earnings distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic's gendered impact.
Subjects: 
Intra-household inequality
earnings inequality
pandemic
lockdown
gender inequality
LIS database
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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