This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …

-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 …

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 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 in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …

employment opportunities for unskilled African labourers. Youth residing in mining settlements, have a large vested interest in … school students towards mining as a form of employment and its impact on economic and social life in mining communities are …

to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …

1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …