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Efectos heterogéneos de la pandemia del COVID-19 sobre el empleo femenino y masculino en México/Heterogeneous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Mexico’s female and male employment

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  • Daniel Chiquiar

    (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

  • Aldo Heffner

    (Banco de México)

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Se descompone el diferencial entre las caídas del empleo femenino y masculino durante la pandemia en México. Una parte importante del diferencial se asocia a una contracción de la oferta de trabajo de mujeres casadas con menores de edad en el hogar. Otra se deriva de una caída más pronunciada del empleo femenino informal a lo largo de los diferentes sectores de actividad y de manera independiente a la composición sectorial que tenía el empleo al inicio de la pandemia. La mayor proporción inicial de empleos femeninos en las actividades que fueron más afectadas no contribuye de manera importante.

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  • Daniel Chiquiar & Aldo Heffner, 2024. "Efectos heterogéneos de la pandemia del COVID-19 sobre el empleo femenino y masculino en México/Heterogeneous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Mexico’s female and male employment," Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos, vol. 39(1), pages 3-59.
    • Handle: RePEc:emx:esteco:v:39:y:2024:i:1:p:3-59
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    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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