Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
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 ge...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099734408182218704/IDU012fe4d900e4df0432c0b975000867a8b99cf http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37903 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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