A Care-Led Recovery From Covid-19: Investing in High-Quality Care to Stimulate And Rebalance The Economy
通过投入产出分析，比较了投资高质量护理服务与投资建筑业对就业的影响，发现护理主导的复苏在提升就业率和缩小性别就业差距方面效果更优，且成本更低。
The COVID-19 pandemic has both devastated employment prospects, particularly of women, and exposed the longstanding neglect of care systems and poor employment conditions of care workers. Most recovery programs propose to stimulate employment by focusing on investment in construction, ignoring gender equality issues. This paper argues for public investment in high-quality care services and better conditions for care workers to build a more gender-equal caring economy. Using input–output analysis, across selected European Union countries and the United States, the study shows a care-led recovery has superior employment outcomes to investment in construction, even when wages and hours are matched. In particular, matching employment and wages in care to the high levels of Scandinavian countries would raise employment rates by more than 5 percentage points and halve most gender employment gaps, while the net cost of investment in construction that achieved as much would generally be at least twice as high.