Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252215 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15091
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we compare labor market stocks and labor market flows over four quarters for a set of balanced panel samples of comparable workers before and after the pandemic. We find that the pandemic has negatively affected the labor market status of both men and women, but that the effect is significantly stronger for women, magnifying the already large gender gaps that characterize LAC countries. The main channel through which this stronger impact is taking place is the increase in child care work affecting women with school-age children.
Subjects: 
labor supply
labor market transitions
COVID-19
gender differentials
Latin American and Caribbean countries
JEL: 
J6
J16
J46
O10
O17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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