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Chakravorty, Bhaskar , Bhatiya, Apurav Yash, Imbert, Clément, Lohnert, Maximilian, Poonam , Panda and Rathelot, Roland (2023) Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on India’s rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment. World Development, 168 . 106242. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106242 ISSN 0305-750X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106242
Abstract
This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the COVID-19 crisis on India’s rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand three times after the first national lockdown in 2020, between June 2020 and December 2021. We find that a third of respondents who were in salaried jobs pre-lockdown lost their jobs, and half of those who worked out of state returned home shortly after the lockdown. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers took up informal employment, most female workers dropped out of the labour force. In the second part of the paper, we use a randomised experiment to document the effects of a government-supported digital platform designed to provide jobs to low-skilled workers. The platform turned out to be difficult to use and publicised only few job ads. We find no effect on job search intensity or employment. Our findings suggest that bridging the gap between rural young workers and urban formal labour markets requires more active and targeted policy interventions, especially for female workers.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | |||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects -- India, Rural unemployment -- India, Youth -- Employment -- India, Women -- Employment -- India, Vocational education -- India | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | World Development | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0305-750X | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | August 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 168 | |||||||||||||||
Article Number: | 106242 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106242 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 March 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 June 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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