Deshpande, Ashwini; Ramachandran, Rajesh - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 45 (2023) 4, pp. 1982-1997
Using panel data for the period between April 2019 and September 2021, this paper investigates how the Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns imposed differential labor market shocks on different social identity groups. We find that while all caste groups lost jobs in the first 2 months of the...