TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bredemeier, Christian
AU  - Juessen, Falko
AU  - Winkler, Roland
        TI  - Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
        PY  - 2015/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8948
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8948
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - employment
KW  - gender
KW  - fiscal policy
KW  - business cycles
        ER  -