Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/266988 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] EconomiA [ISSN:] 1517-7580 [Volume:] 22 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 225-238
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
This paper sets out to analyze gender behavior in the Brazilian labor market as a result of the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on job destruction and creation during the lockdown and implementation of social distancing throughout 2020. To do so, it uses the New General Register of Employed and Unemployed (NCAGED) and applies the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to net male and female job destruction at municipal level, in the 18 to 40 age group. In addition, inequality for every month of 2020, in terms of the pre- and post-pandemic context was verified. It was found that the initial months affected all formal workers but had an even greater effect on women. Another relevant contribution of this study is its inequality decomposition, where the findings show that it is largely due to structural effects.
Subjects: 
COVID-19 pandemic
Gender Gap
Inequality decomposition
Job Destruction
JEL: 
J16
J23
J63
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Document Type: 
Article

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