Assessing the Vulnerability of Armenian Temporary Labor Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Maddalena Honorati, Soonhwa Yi and Thelma Seoeun Choi

No 151567, The Social Policy and Labor Discussion Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper attempts to assess the vulnerability of Armenian temporary international labor migrants and their families to the labor market challenges posed by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The authors estimate that about fifty percent of temporary labor migrants might have been unable to leave for Russia owing to travel restrictions. Many Armenian migrants in Russia are likely to lose jobs because of some halts in construction activities. Prospective migrants who were unable to leave Armenia are more likely to be jobless based on the employment status they had prior to departing for Russia. This would result in reducing remittances and exposing remittance-dependent households to precarious situations. Targeted policies to address this new vulnerable group are called for.

Keywords: null (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/57307160 ... OVID-19-Pandemic.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/573071600439189344/pdf/Assessing-the-Vulnerability-of-Armenian-Temporary-Labor-Migrants-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic.pdf [302 Found]--> https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/573071600439189344/pdf/Assessing-the-Vulnerability-of-Armenian-Temporary-Labor-Migrants-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic.pdf [302 Found]--> http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/573071600439189344/pdf/Assessing-the-Vulnerability-of-Armenian-Temporary-Labor-Migrants-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/573071600439189344/pdf/Assessing-the-Vulnerability-of-Armenian-Temporary-Labor-Migrants-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:hdnspu:151567

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in The Social Policy and Labor Discussion Paper Series from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Aaron F Buchsbaum ().