This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on formal sector employment in Uganda. Utilizing employee …-level administrative tax data from the Uganda Revenue Authority, we describe the dynamics of employment as the pandemic evolved, seeking to …

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 … separate analysis of South African data on employment losses and gains during COVID-19 (see Rogan and Skinner 2022). This paper …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …

-in-differences design, we find that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the … treated districts, particularly among workers in informal self-employment. While the gap in employment between the treated and …

that the only group that experienced a recovery in employment was workers who were not at the top of the pre …-pandemic earnings distribution. Conditional on being in registered employment, mean earnings also dropped in the second quarter of 2020 …

's labour force participation is mostly in flexible employment, e.g. self-employment and agricultural and non-agricultural wage … employment, and is particularly evident for poorer households. …

order to incentivize pension savings and increase the fairness of the retirement system. Using administrative tax micro … of contributions). The reform was not effective at mitigating the regressive impact of the retirement system because the … number of individuals contributing to retirement funds increased relatively more for top earners, and it has also exacerbated …