Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Employment Among Parents of Young Children in Canada

Fuller, Sylvia; Qian, Yue

doi:10.1177/08912432211001287

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“…results have been reported for the United Kingdom (Andrew et al 2020) and Canada (Fuller & Qian 2021). Against the backdrop of a conservative gender regime and the predominant role of mothers as secondary earners (Riederer & Berghammer 2020)combined with a sudden increase in family-based care work during the pandemic (Berghammer 2021 in this Special Issue) -we may expect to see a similar pattern in Austria.…”

Section: Parental Employmentsupporting

confidence: 69%

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

Steiber

Siegert²,

Vogtenhuber³

2022

JFamRes

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Objective: This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation of parents and in turn on the subjective financial well-being of families with children in Austria. Background: The pandemic had strong repercussions on the Austrian labour market. The short-time work (STW) programme covered a third of employees in the first half of 2020 and helped to maintain employment levels. We provide evidence on how an unprecedented labour market crisis of this sort and in particular the exceptionally wide use of STW had affected the employment situation of parents and the financial well-being of different types of families. Method: The study draws on register data and representative panel survey data. The latter cover 905 families with minor children and include information on the employment situation of parents and the financial well-being of families before crisis onset, three months and ten months after its onset. Results: Register data show that mothers were not more strongly affected by the labour market crisis of 2020 than childless women or fathers. According to survey data, about a third of couples with minor children experienced income losses. Despite the wide use of STW and government support to families, the share of families in financial difficulties has substantially increased, especially among those with many children and single parents, many of whom were at risk of poverty already before the crisis. Conclusion: Substantial shares of dual-earner families that had low poverty risks before the crisis were in financial difficulties in 2020. Potential spill-over effects of financial shocks on children are discussed.

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Section: Parental Employmentsupporting

confidence: 69%

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

Steiber

Siegert²,

Vogtenhuber³

2022

JFamRes

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“…Evidence from the United States (Lofton et al, 2021;Landivar et al, 2020) shows that at the start of the pandemic fathers saw their employment fall less than women and childless men and the recovery of jobs has been more pronounced for men and childless women than for mothers. Similar results have been reported for the UK (Andrew et al, 2020) and Canada (Fuller & Qian, 2021). We will test if mothers were more likely to lose their jobs or to register for short-time work (thus to record income losses) than women as part of childless couples or men also in Austria.…”

Section: Gender Perspectivesupporting

confidence: 62%

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

Steiber¹,

Siegert²,

Vogtenhuber³

2021

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Objective: This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation of parents and in turn on the subjective financial well-being of families with children in Austria. Background: The pandemic had strong repercussions on the Austrian labour market. The short-time work (STW) programme covered a third of employees in the first half of 2020 and helped to maintain employment levels. We provide evidence on how an unprecedented labour market crisis of this sort and in particular the exceptionally wide use of STW had affected the (gendered) employment situation of parents and the financial well-being of different types of families. Method: The study draws on representative panel survey data that cover 905 families with underage children. The data include information on the employment situation and financial well-being of single and cohabiting parents before the onset of the crisis, three months and ten months after its onset. Results: In contrast to other countries, mothers were not more strongly affected by the labour market crisis of 2020 than childless women or fathers. About a third of couples with underage children experienced income losses. Despite the wide use of STW and government support to families, the share of families in financial difficulties has substantially increased, especially among those with many children and single parents, many of who were at risk of poverty already before the crisis. Conclusion: Substantial shares of dual-earner families that had low poverty risks before the crisis were in financial difficulties in 2020. Potential spill-over effects of financial shocks on children are discussed.

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“…In the UK, during the first lockdown period from April to May 2020, among parents with children aged between 4 and 15, mothers were found to be more likely to be laid off, furloughed, or quit their jobs [ 21 ]. Similarly, in Australia [ 6 ], Canada [ 22 ], and the US [ 23 ], mothers with young children experienced a larger change in their paid work time or were more likely to leave their jobs. On the other hand, several studies have reported improvements in the domestic division of labor: the increase in domestic work was larger for men than for women during the lockdown period in Australia [ 6 ], Canada [ 24 ], France [ 25 ], and the US [ 26 ].…”

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The varying impacts of COVID-19 and its related measures in the UK: A year in review

Zhou

Kan

2021

PLoS ONE

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We examine how the earnings, time use, and subjective wellbeing of different social groups changed at different stages/waves of the pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK). We analyze longitudinal data from the latest UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS) COVID study and the earlier waves of the UKHLS to investigate within-individual changes in labor income, paid work time, housework time, childcare time, and distress level during the three lockdown periods and the easing period between them (from April 2020 to late March 2021). We find that as the pandemic developed, COVID-19 and its related lockdown measures in the UK had unequal and varying impacts on people’s income, time use, and subjective well-being based on their gender, ethnicity, and educational level. In conclusion, the extent of the impacts of COVID-19 and COVID-induced measures as well as the speed at which these impacts developed, varied across social groups with different types of vulnerabilities.

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Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Employment Among Parents of Young Children in Canada

Cited by 64 publications

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

The varying impacts of COVID-19 and its related measures in the UK: A year in review

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