Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272216 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1291
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
The Covid-19 crisis has been defined as a "She-recession" because of its disproportionate impact on female employment by contrast to past recessions defined as "Man-recessions", for the usual disproportionate impact on men. The roots of the She-recession can be however traced back to the persistence of gender asymmetries both intra-household and extra-household in the labour market, a phenomenon known as feminization. This paper aims at measuring and explaining the gender differences in the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the Italian labour market from a macroeconomic perspective. We measure the duration, depth and diffusion of the Covid-19 crisis on job losses, structural unemployment and inactivity. We find that the impact of the Covid-19 crisis has been more than proportional for women, especially for low educated female workers and working in the South during 2020.
Subjects: 
feminization
hysteresis
labour markets
JEL: 
J16
E32
J6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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