Substantial informal employment and excessive unpaid care burdens on women are characteristic of developing economies. This article takes a gender lens to examine the employment effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers in rural Viet Nam. Using 2021 Vietnamese labour force survey data with a...

The COVID-19 pandemic is the world's deadliest health pandemic since the 1918 flu pandemic and caused one of the deepest economic crises since the Great Depression of the 1930s. As COVID-19 spread with alarming speed, every area of global business was impacted. One of the most severely impacted...