dc.contributor.author	Khamis, Melanie
dc.contributor.author	Prinz, Daniel
dc.contributor.author	Newhouse, David
dc.contributor.author	Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
dc.contributor.author	Pape, Utz
dc.contributor.author	Weber, Michael
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-26T19:20:08Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-26T19:20:08Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-22
dc.description.abstract	The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced mobility and economic activity, disrupting the lives of people around the globe. This brief presents estimates on the crisis’ impact on labor markets in 39 countries based on high-frequency phone survey (HFPS) data collected between April and July 2020. Workers in these countries experienced severe labor market disruptions following the COVID-19 outbreak. 34 percent of respondents reported stopping work, 20 percent of wage workers reported lack of payment for work performed, 9 percent reported job changes due to the pandemic, and 62 percent reported income loss in their household. Measures of work stoppage and income loss in the HFPS are generally consistent with GDP growth projections in Latin America and the Caribbean but not in Sub-Saharan Africa, indicating that the phone survey data contributes valuable new information about the impacts of the crisis. Ensuring availability of such critical data in the future will require investments into statistical and physical infrastructure as well as human capital to set up Emergency Observatories, which can rapidly deploy phone surveys to inform decision makers.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/607281611295650533/Early-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Developing-Countries
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/35047
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35047
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Jobs Watch COVID-19;
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.subject	INCOME LOSS
dc.subject	EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject	UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subject	CORONAVIRUS
dc.subject	COVID-19
dc.subject	PANDEMIC IMPACT
dc.subject	PHONE SURVEY
dc.title	Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries	en
dc.type	Brief	en
dc.type	Fiche	fr
dc.type	Resumen	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2021-01-22
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-29T10:20:36.443981Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Brief
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/607281611295650533/Early-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Developing-Countries
okr.guid	607281611295650533
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0881f8e6c_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	32769257
okr.identifier.report	156044
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/607281611295650533/pdf/Early-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Developing-Countries.pdf	en
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Disease Control & Prevention
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unit	JOBS- CCSA - IBRD (HSPJB)

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