Losing Livelihoods : The Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Bangladesh
This paper provides early insights into the labor market impacts of the ongoing Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in Bangladesh, with a special focus on three especially vulnerable areas: poor areas in Dhaka and Chittagong City Corporations and Co...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/475551600152674960/Losing-Livelihoods-The-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Bangladesh http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34449 |
| Summary: | This paper provides early insights into
the labor market impacts of the ongoing Coronavirus 2019
(COVID-19) crisis in Bangladesh, with a special focus on
three especially vulnerable areas: poor areas in Dhaka and
Chittagong City Corporations and Cox’s Bazar district. The
authors build on household surveys collected before the
crisis and phone monitoring surveys collected after the
start of the crisis to shed light on the implications of
COVID-19 for employment and earnings. The findings presented
indicate substantial labor market impacts both at the
extensive and intensive margin, with important variation
across areas and gender, largely due to the nature of
occupations affected by the crisis. The findings also point
to substantial uncertainty about job prospects. |
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