COVID-19 Impacts on Women Factory Workers in Ethiopia : Results from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
As the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to disrupt international supply chains and local economies, workers employed in export-oriented industries are likely to experience both demand and supply shocks due to the crisis. In Ethiopia,...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/836531600754494664/COVID-19-Impacts-on-Women-Factory-Workers-in-Ethiopia-Results-from-High-Frequency-Phone-Surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34539 |
| Summary: | As the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic continues to disrupt international supply chains
and local economies, workers employed in export-oriented
industries are likely to experience both demand and supply
shocks due to the crisis. In Ethiopia, a slowed global
economy can pose a significant threat to the country’s
industrial parks and their factories in the
female-concentrated garment industry, forcing them to lay
off workers or even shut down their operations. To monitor
the potential effects of the pandemic and support the design
of evidence-based policy responses, the gender innovation
policy initiative for Ethiopia (GIPIE) is conducting a
high-frequency phone survey on a sample of 323 recently
hired female factory workers in Ethiopia. This brief reports
on the first two waves of data collected between late March
and late May 2020, showing the evolution of this sample of
female workers’ employment status, earnings, and
expectations over the course of the pandemic. Due to the
size of the sample and the fact that it only includes recent
hires at the Bole Lemi Industrial Park, the results may not
generalize for the full population of women factory workers
in industrial parks. Data collection from the ongoing
high-frequency phone survey of women factory workers in Bole
Lemi Industrial Park will continue in the coming months,
with recurring surveys every month for a total of 6 rounds.
By tracking the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, these data
collection efforts aim to equip policymakers with timely,
actionable data to better design and implement policy
responses in support of Ethiopia’s women factory workers. |
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