The Evolving Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries
The early labor market impacts of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in widespread disruption to livelihoods. Previous analysis showed that between April and July 2020, across a sample of 39 countries, an average of 34 percen...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/736581626933374446/Jobs-Watch-COVID-19-The-Evolving-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-COVID-19-in-Developing-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36032 |
| Summary: | The early labor market impacts of the
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in
widespread disruption to livelihoods. Previous analysis
showed that between April and July 2020, across a sample of
39 countries, an average of 34 percent of workers stopped
work, 20 percent of employees experienced partial or no
payments for work performed, and 9 percent changed jobs
during the early part of the pandemic. This brief discusses
how labor markets have evolved since the initial phase of
the crisis in the spring and early summer of 2020. It uses
harmonized data from high-frequency phone surveys (HFPS)
conducted in 33 developing countries and provides
information on the changing labor market impacts of the
crisis in these countries from the initial phase of the
pandemic in April 2020 through December 2020. |
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