The COVID-19 pandemic had disproportionate impacts on women's employment, especially for mothers with school-age and … generous wage subsidy scheme to secure employment. We utilize tax records to compare employment patterns of parents from the … pandemic period (treatment group) to similar parents from a recent pre-pandemic period (control group). For mothers whose …

was relatively stable during the pre-pandemic time period, dropped sharply post-lockdown. This drop in employment was not … Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered …,000 individuals surveyed in April 2020 (i.e. during the strict nationwide lockdown), the paper finds that overall employment, which …

that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts … narrowed four months after the lockdown was lifted, we detect a persistent nationwide decline in both earnings and employment …In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies …