Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (40 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
Keywords:
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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COVID-19 Impact
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Economic Shock
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Employment and Unemployment
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Gender and Employment
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Gender and Poverty
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Gender and Social Policy
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Household Survey Data
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Inequality
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Inequaliy
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Job Loss
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Job Loss by Age
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Jobs
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Labor Markets
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Poverty Reduction
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Social Protections and Labor
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Vulnerability to Poverty
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Gender
Abstract:
This paper uses high-frequency phone survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda to analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on work (including wage employment, self-employment, and farm work) and income, as well as heterogeneity by gender, family composition, education, age, pre-COVID19 industry of work, and between the rural and urban sectors. The paper links phone survey data collected throughout the pandemic to pre-COVID-19 face-to-face survey data to track the employment of respondents who were working before the pandemic and analyze individual-level indicators of job loss and re-employment. Finally, it analyzes both immediate impacts, during the first few months of the pandemic, as well as longer run impacts through February/March 2021. The findings show that in the early phase of the pandemic, women, young, and urban workers were significantly more likely to lose their jobs. A year after the onset of the pandemic, these inequalities disappeared and education became the main predictor of joblessness. The analysis finds significant rural/urban, age, and education gradients in household-level income loss. Households with income from nonfarm enterprises were the most likely to report income loss, in the short run as well as the longer run
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-10143
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