Estimates the effects of the 2008-09 trade contraction on employment and incomes in India and South Africa, using … social accounting matrices (SAMs) in a Leontief multiplier model. Employment results are presented at aggregate and industry … levels and examine gender and skills biases. Income results examine inequality at the level of rural and urban household …

Discusses the effects of two recent economic crises, 1998-1999 and 2008-2009, on gender and racial inequalities in … Brazil. Argues that the effects of these crises on qualitative aspects of employment such as wages and employment status have … crisis, quantitative aspects of employment, namely employment and unemployment rates, improved for women and blacks …