Gender and Business Cycles
April 4, 2024
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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
Pages:
22
Volume:
2024
DOI:
Issue:
001
Series:
Gender Notes No. 2024/001
Stock No:
GNSEA2024001
ISBN:
9798400270376
ISSN:
3005-4591
