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Workers at Risk: Panel Data Evidence on the COVID-19 Labor Market Crisis in India

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dc.contributor.authorKotia, Ananya
dc.contributor.authorBussolo, Maurizio
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Siddharth
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-18T14:40:37Z
dc.date.available2021-03-18T14:40:37Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic is having unequal impacts. Research has highlighted that across race, gender, age, and income groups, the health and economic consequences of this crisis are far from uniform and other preexisting inequalities have been exacerbated. This paper focuses on the differential impact on the formal and informal segments of the labor market in India, using data from a large household panel survey and employing a difference-in-differences event study approach. Within the same industry and district, initially informal wage workers were significantly more vulnerable to the loss of employment than initially formal workers during the early phase of COVID-19 (April 2020). Furthermore, income declined significantly more for households whose head worked as an informal wage worker than for households with a formally employed head. However, the post-COVID employment and income differentials between informal and formal workers narrowed after April 2020. By July 2020, the decline in income (from the pre-COVID baseline of February 2020) was not significantly different across households with informally and formally employed heads, suggesting that while informal workers were affected more severely by the early COVID-19 shock, they also recovered faster from it.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/694351615916424727/Workers-at-Risk-Panel-Data-Evidence-on-the-COVID-19-Labor-Market-Crisis-in-India
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9584
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/35292
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9584
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectINFORMAL WORKER
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectINFORMALITY
dc.subjectCORONAVIRUS
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectPANDEMIC IMPACT
dc.subjectUNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectINCOME LOSS
dc.titleWorkers at Risken
dc.title.subtitlePanel Data Evidence on the COVID-19 Labor Market Crisis in Indiaen
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okr.crossref.titleWorkers at Risk: Panel Data Evidence on the COVID-19 Labor Market Crisis in India
okr.date.disclosure2021-03-16
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T12:01:39.622436Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/694351615916424727/Workers-at-Risk-Panel-Data-Evidence-on-the-COVID-19-Labor-Market-Crisis-in-India
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9584
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okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryIndia
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okr.topicRural Development::Rural Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Disease Control & Prevention
okr.unitOffice of the Chief Economist, South Asia Region
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