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Research Projects

We provide here a list of on-going research projects addressing labour market and/or gender implications of Covid-19 in LIC’s. The materials will be updated weekly. Selected research projects from the G2LM|LIC call on COVID-19 are listed below.

G2LM|LIC COVID-19 Projects

  • The Impact of COVID19 Pandemic on the Small Firms in Developing Countries
  • Characterizing Urban Labor Market Effects of COVID and Speeding Recovery  through a Job Search Platform
  • Meet Your Future: Job Search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
  • Migration, Changing Residence Patterns, and Covid-19 in India
  • Gender Differences in the Effects of the ‘Great Lockdown’ on Time Use
  • What Can Online Vacancies Tell Us About Labor Market Conditions in Lower-Income Countries? Evidence from India
  • Gender Effects of COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey
  • Remittances and Coping with COVID‐19
  • Assessing the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19 on Women with Young Children in Egypt
  • Resilience and Recovery: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the Informal Sector in Uganda
  • Tracking the Value of Time of Informal Sector Workers During and Post-Curfew in Nairobi, Kenya
  • The Effects of Employer Responses to COVID-19 on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh
  • Assessing the Impact of the Shock on the Most Vulnerable – Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2020
  • Is Heading Home a Dead End? COVID-Induced Migration and Local Labor Market Opportunities in Rural India

Initiative

  • The EEA encourages researchers and institutions to send a short description of research projects that are in progress and involve gathering and analyzing data during the COVID-19 crisis. The EEA registry can be accessed here.

Other On-going Projects 

  • Migration and the Labor Market Impacts of Covid-19 by Nathan Barker
  • Disparate Impacts of Covid-19 Lockdowns in Pakistan Affecting Girls and Rural Residents by Syed Hasan
  • Understanding the Response to and Recovery from the Covid-19 crisis among Informal Sector Workers in Urban India by Farzana Afridi
  • Listening to Young Lives at Work: Impact of the Global Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic on Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam by Marta Favara 
  • The Impact of Covid-19 on the Lives of Women in the Garment Industry: Evidence from Ethiopia by Morgan Hardy 
  • A Cross Country Analyses of Sentiments and Emotions, before and after Covid-19, Using Big Data by Talita Greyling 
  • Covid-19 and the Future of Microfinance: Evidence and Insights from Pakistan by Kashif Malik
  • The Effects of Emergency Government Cash Transfers on Beliefs and Behaviours during the Covid Pandemic: Evidence from Brazil by Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon
  • Impacts of Covid-19 on Rural Households in Bangladesh by Peter Morgan
  • Resilience to Economic Shocks through Continued Electricity Access in Kenya and Ghana by Catherine Wolfram

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Other Finished Projects 

  • Do Cash Transfers Help Sustain Economic and Psychological Well-being in Times of Crisis – Experimental Evidence from Uganda by Kjetil Bjorvatn
  • Community Health Care and Covid-19 Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda by Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist 
  • Poverty and Covid-19 in Developing Countries by Olivier Bargain 
  • An Intersectional Analysis of COVID-19 Unemployment by Armagan Gezici and Ozge Ozay
  • The Labor Market and Poverty Impacts of Covid-19 in South Africa by Rocco Zizzamiam, Ronak Jain, Joshua Budlender, Ihsaan Bassier
  • Migrant Workers at Crossroads–The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Experience in India by Rajani Suresh , Justine James and Balraju R. S.j
  • The Value of Work: Rethinking Labor Productivity in Times of COVID‐19 and Automation by Juan Chebly, Austin Schiano and Divya Mehra
  • Gender Differences in Experiencing Coronavirus-Triggered Economic Hardship: Evidence from Four Developing Countries by  Mobarak Hossain

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