Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen and Roland Winkler ()

No 8948, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to stabilize the level of employment along with its composition.

Keywords: employment; gender; fiscal policy; business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J10 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-03
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 158, 73-76

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