TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette
AU  - Oseni, Gbemisola
AU  - Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
AU  - Pieters, Janneke
AU  - Weber, Michael
        TI  - Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
        PY  - 2022/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15406
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15406
        AB  - We use high frequency phone survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda to analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on work (including wage employment, self-employment, and farm work) and income, as well as heterogeneity by gender, family composition, education, age, pre-COVID-19 industry of work, and between the rural and urban sector. We link phone survey data collected throughout the pandemic to pre-COVID-19 face-to-face survey data in order to track the employment of respondents who were working before the pandemic and analyze individual level indicators of job loss and re-employment. 
Finally, we analyze both immediate impacts, during the first few months of the pandemic, as well as longer-run impacts up to February/March 2021. We find that in the early phase of the pandemic, women, young, and urban workers were significantly more likely to lose their job. A year after the onset of the pandemic, these inequalities disappeared while education became the main predictor of joblessness. We find significant rural/urban, age, and education gradients in household level income loss. Households with income from non-farm enterprises were most likely to report income loss, in the short run as well as the longer run.
        KW  - COVID-19
KW  - employment
KW  - income
KW  - inequality
KW  - Africa
        ER  -