This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …

Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and … employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … sources of data, including household surveys, firm surveys, and administrative data, and it can be hard to keep up with all of …

activities. While intergenerational linkages are evident, we find a seemingly high degree of mobility across generations … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …

-employed workers exhibit relatively more mobility than wage workers. Among wage workers, we find high persistence rates for formal wage … experiencing upward transition. Our results also suggest that lower-tier informal workers, whether in self-employment or wage … employment, have limited upward transition possibilities, and are in a 'dead-end' work status. …

pushed to accept informal sector jobs that are insecure, unsafe, and lack non-wage benefits. Precarious employment is … pervasive among lower socioeconomic groups, leading to the perpetuation of misery across generations. Understanding employment … the initial conditions. We analyse the static nature of vulnerable employment-especially youth unemployment and …

-tier informal. Mobility out of lower-tier informal work is higher than out of all other work statuses. While many lower …-tier informal workers leave employment or transition into other informal statuses, most transitions are from lower-tier informal …

We examine the intergenerational mobility of women relative to men, using paired mother-daughter and father-son data on … occupation and education for Cameroon. We find that both in occupation and education, intergenerational mobility is higher for …-paid occupations as compared with men. In the case of educational mobility, the effect of the mother's education on the daughter …

that of fathers. In terms of gender differences, there is the evidence of a dependency burden in the occupational choice of … social mobility, policy-makers need to channel attention towards the elimination of capital market imperfections to encourage … investment in human capital among the poor in society and to facilitate social mobility through the provision of economic …

We suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess inter-generational mobility. It accommodates different types of … mobility. We suggest an application for Indonesia. Exploiting IFLS data to match parents observed in 1993 to their children in … 2014, we provide one of the rare intergenerational mobility analyses based on a long panel in the context of a poor country …