Survey of Members of the Indian Society of Labour Economics on the COVID-19 Crisis and Employment
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Survey of Members of the Indian Society of Labour Economics on the COVID‑19 Crisis and Employment Gerry Rodgers1 Published online: 23 September 2020 © Indian Socie of Labour Economics 2020
Beyond the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and mortality, there are major consequences for the labour market. But the information available on this impact is quite fragmented and often anecdotal. Many members of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) have personal experience or knowledge of the impact of the crisis, or have local sources of information and research results, so they constitute an important pool of expertise on the labour market issues concerned. An online survey of ISLE members was therefore carried out in the last week of May 2020 to ask for their assessments of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and their views on the policies needed to overcome it, prior to the ILO-ISLE-IHD virtual conference held on 8–9 June. The questionnaire is given in the supplementary material.1 520 valid responses were received. The first series of questions concerned the views of ISLE members as to the groups which have been most affected by the crisis, in terms of employment and income, in the state of residence of the respondents. Respondents were invited to identify the group of the population most affected within the categories of age, sex, caste, location and migrant status. Figure 1 shows the per cent of respondents choosing each group. The great majority of respondents thought that the middle age groups, aged 30–59, had been most affected. Less than 20% thought that younger people were 1
This survey was implemented by IHD team led by Balwant Mehta, who also organized the data processing. The survey was carried out as background for the ILO-ISLE-IHD Conference on the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for labour and employment in India, June 8–9, 2020. The design of the questionnaire reflects contributions by Alakh N. Sharma, Ravi Srivastava, Dev Nathan and J. Krishnamurty as well as the author. Technical and organizational support was provided by Priyanka Tyagi. We would like to thank the many ISLE members who took the time to answer the questionnaire and give their views. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s4102 7-020-00275-w) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Gerry Rodgers [email protected] 1
Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India
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Fig. 1 Impact of COVID-19 on different population groups
Migrant status Residents Migrants
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