(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act … (NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …. -- difference-in-difference ; intent-to-treat ; NREGA ; rural India …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … in the recent literature. However, no study so far has looked into the dynamics of employment in terms of labour force …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …

decline in employment in recent months as well as declines in consumer spending. While lockdowns have pronounced effects on …

effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …

care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the … employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased …' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after …