Jobs Watch COVID-19: The Evolving Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Melanie Khamis, Daniel Prinz (), David Newhouse, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Utz Pape and Michael Weber

No 33286241, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Poverty and Equity; labor market impact; income loss; jobs and development; Public Utilities; household income; share of employment; labor market activity; number of workers; sectoral reallocation; changing labor market; development cooperation; labor market outcome; percent change; labor market indicator; labor market information; payment for work; reallocations across sectors; restrictions on mobility; quality of work; signs of recovery; place of work; income increase; standard error; high frequency; relative change; robustness check; mobility pattern; aggregate indicator; income change; positive correlation; survey data; observed increase; other sectors; agricultural sector; employment rate; income information; new job; average share; sectoral allocation; business service; differential in income; commerce sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5
Date: 2021-07-22
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