%0 Report
        %A Bredemeier, Christian
%A Juessen, Falko
%A Winkler, Roland
        %T Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8948
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8948
        %X 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.
        %K employment
%K gender
%K fiscal policy
%K business cycles