The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys

The economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (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 thirty-nine c...

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Main Authors:	Khamis, Melanie, Prinz, Daniel, Newhouse, David, Palacios-Lopez, Amparo, Pape, Utz, Weber, Michael
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	LABOR MARKET PHONE SURVEY CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT EMPLOYMENT LOCKDOWN LABOR MOBILITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/543791611305013434/The-Early-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Developing-Countries-Evidence-from-High-frequency-Phone-Surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35044

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spelling	okr-10986-350442021-09-20T14:06:45Z The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys Khamis, Melanie Prinz, Daniel Newhouse, David Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Pape, Utz Weber, Michael LABOR MARKET PHONE SURVEY CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT EMPLOYMENT LOCKDOWN LABOR MOBILITY The economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (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 thirty-nine 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 Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Thirty-four percent of respondents reported stopping work, twenty percent of wage workers reported lack of payment for work performed, nine percent reported job changes due to the pandemic, and sixty-two percent reported income loss in their household. Measures of work stoppage and income loss in the HFPS are generally consistent with gross domestic products (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. 2021-01-25T17:04:59Z 2021-01-25T17:04:59Z 2021-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/543791611305013434/The-Early-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Developing-Countries-Evidence-from-High-frequency-Phone-Surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35044 English Jobs Working Paper;No. 58 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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spellingShingle	LABOR MARKET PHONE SURVEY CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT EMPLOYMENT LOCKDOWN LABOR MOBILITY Khamis, Melanie Prinz, Daniel Newhouse, David Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Pape, Utz Weber, Michael The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
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description	The economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (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 thirty-nine 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 Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Thirty-four percent of respondents reported stopping work, twenty percent of wage workers reported lack of payment for work performed, nine percent reported job changes due to the pandemic, and sixty-two percent reported income loss in their household. Measures of work stoppage and income loss in the HFPS are generally consistent with gross domestic products (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.
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author	Khamis, Melanie Prinz, Daniel Newhouse, David Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Pape, Utz Weber, Michael
author_facet	Khamis, Melanie Prinz, Daniel Newhouse, David Palacios-Lopez, Amparo Pape, Utz Weber, Michael
author_sort	Khamis, Melanie
title	The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
title_short	The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
title_full	The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
title_fullStr	The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
title_full_unstemmed	The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
title_sort	early labor market impacts of covid-19 in developing countries : evidence from high-frequency phone surveys
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/543791611305013434/The-Early-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Developing-Countries-Evidence-from-High-frequency-Phone-Surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35044
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The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys

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