80% of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of those … waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that a reasonably quick rebound of the labour market may …

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 …

-least-squares method. The results indicate that GVC position is negatively correlated both with wages and with employment, while the effect …

temporary severing of employment relationships followed by a phase of more standard labour market search and matching, we use … stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market … persistence in depressed employment rates. …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … formal sector. Yet the dual structure is not balanced in the same way in all three countries. Most of the self-employment …

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 …