How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?

ABSTRACT: This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the employment of different groups of workers across 40 mostly low and middle-income countries. Employment outcomes during the crisis are tracked through high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and national statistics offices. Our results show that larger shares of female, young, less educated, and urban workers stopped working at the beginning of the pandemic. Gender gaps in work stoppage stemmed mainly from gender differences within sectors rather than differential employment patterns of men and women across sectors. Differences in work stoppage between urban and rural workers were markedly smaller than those across gender, age, and education groups. Preliminary results from 10 countries suggest that following the in

SUBMITTER: Kugler M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10284455 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature