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How is the Covid-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality Among Palestinians in Israel?
Miaari, Sami H. - 2020
our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822824
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Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness : evidence from India
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kundu, Anustup - 2020
group-disaggregated data often contributes. In this paper, we use available data to explore how horizontal inequality in … pronounced horizontal inequality, but also because it adopted an especially stringent lockdown policy. Our analysis illustrates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320997
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How Is the COVID-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality among Palestinians in Israel?
Miaari, Sami H.; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha; Loewenthal, Amit - 2020
our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322515
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK: an update
Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651380
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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health and Well-being of Vulnerable People in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022
Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417527
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Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock : evidence from real time surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207117
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A decomposition analysis for socioeconomic inequalities in health status associated with the COVID-19 diagnosis and related symptoms during Brazil's first wave of infections
França, Natália Cecília de; Lima Campêlo, Guaracyane; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 251-264
the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … higher income levels. When considering symptoms similar to a COVID-19 infection, inequality practically disappears. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162294
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Is Covid-19 "the great leveler"? : the critical role of social identity in lockdown-induced job losses
Deshpande, Ashwini; Ramachandran, Rajesh - 2020
Using nationally representative panel data for 21,799 individuals between May 2018 and April 2020, this paper investigates whether the Covid-19 pandemic was indeed a "Great Leveler" in the sense that it imposed similar and equivalent labour market shocks on different caste groups. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252403
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Socio-Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Cameroon : An Assessment of Poverty, Underemployment and Inequality Levels
Ngono, Aristide Merlin; Ongo Nkoa, Bruno Emmanuel; … - 2023
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on poverty, underemployment and inequality in Cameroon. Our … has contributed to increased poverty and underemployment, leading to increased inequality at the household and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261080
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
to compare measures of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in psychological distress, as measured by the General … systematic increase in total inequality in the Likert GHQ-12 score. However, measures of IOp have not increased. Specifically …, the proportion of total inequality attributed to circumstances has declined, consistent with the notion that the pandemic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239440