Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

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 …

-term employment stability among those who lost their jobs early in the pandemic in contrast to the group of the longer-term unemployed … disproportionate challenges during the pandemic. They were more inclined to transition into precarious employment arrangements and … experienced lower levels of employment stability in the months following re-employment. …