The Early Impact of COVID-19 on Job Losses among Black Women in the United States

Michelle Holder, Janelle Jones and Thomas Masterson

Economics Working Paper Archive from Levy Economics Institute

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even as some workers were able to do their jobs from their homes, a high proportion of "essential workers" were African American, other people of color, women, and an intersection of these groups--women of color. The goal of this paper is to closely examine the contours, depth, and causes of COVID-19's impact on Black women's employment in the United States through the lenses of both feminist economic theory and stratification economics.

Keywords: Occupational Segregation; Racial Discrimination; Gender Discrimination; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J16 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gen and nep-pke
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_963.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The Early Impact of Covid-19 on Job Losses among Black Women in the United States (2021)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lev:wrkpap:wp_963

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economics Working Paper Archive from Levy Economics Institute
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Elizabeth Dunn ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).