Gender Notes

Gender and Business Cycles

By Diego B. P. Gomes

April 4, 2024

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Diego B. P. Gomes Gender and Business Cycles, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2024) accessed October 15, 2024

Summary

This note reviews the literature on the complex relationship between gender and business cycles. It focuses on nuanced patterns that challenge the notion of gender neutrality in economic fluctuations. The note also analyzes dimensions, such as unemployment, income risk, hours worked, and responses to monetary and fiscal policy shocks, and documents distinctive disparities.

Subject: Business cycles, Economic growth, Economic recession, Economic sectors, Gender, Gender inequality, Labor, Unemployment, Women

Keywords: Business cycles, Cyclical sensitivity, Economic recession, Fiscal policy shock, Gender, Gender inequality, Global, IMF library, Impulse responses from monetary policy shock, Income risk, Labor force participation, Men's employment, Unemployment, Women, Women's employment

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Gender Notes No. 2024/001

  • Stock No:

    GNSEA2024001

  • ISBN:

    9798400270376

  • ISSN:

    3005-4591