Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment: Findings from national labour surveys in five Latin American countries

Martha Alter Chen and Joann Vanek

No wp-2023-94, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper provides a comparative summary of recent national statistics from five Latin American countries on employment losses and gains during the peak COVID-19 years compared with pre-pandemic levels. As part of its work on the impact of the pandemic on informal workers, the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network commissioned analyses of recent national labour force data in Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru; and undertook a separate analysis of South African data on employment losses and gains during COVID-19 (see WIDER WP 2022/40 ).

Keywords: Informal work; Employment; COVID-19; formal sector; Informal sector; Informal economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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