The labour market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa: An update with NIDS-CRAM Wave 2

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dc.contributor.author Jain, Ronak
dc.contributor.author Bassier, Ihsaan
dc.contributor.author Budlender, Joshua
dc.contributor.author Zizzamia, Rocco
dc.date.accessioned 2020-11-05T11:38:57Z
dc.date.available 2020-11-05T11:38:57Z
dc.date.issued 2020-11
dc.identifier.citation Jain, R., Bassier, I., Budlender, J., Zizzamia, R. (2020). The labour market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa: An update with NIDS-CRAM Wave 2 Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT. (SALDRU Working Paper No. 272)
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-928516-34-7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11090/995
dc.description.abstract We use Wave 2 of NIDS-CRAM data to provide an update to our original estimates (Jain et al., 2020) of COVID-19-related employment and poverty impacts in South Africa. Compared to the most stringent phase of South Africa's lockdown in April, we find evidence of a limited recovery in the labour market, a decrease in poverty, and an important role for the new Social Relief of Distress grant by June. While temporary unemployment almost returned to February levels, we find that active employment was still 20% lower in June than February, mostly due to job terminations that persisted into June. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship The authors contributed equally to this work. Author order is randomized. We are very grateful to Reza Daniels, Vimal Ranchhod, and participants at the NIDS-CRAM Labor workshop, for helpful comments and discussions. We are also especially grateful to the NIDS-CRAM team whose work producing the data made this research possible. The authors gratefully acknowledge funding for this research from the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Endowment. Any errors remain our own. Declarations of interest: none. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Saldru Working Paper;272
dc.subject Labour markets en_US
dc.subject Poverty en_US
dc.subject Unemployment en_US
dc.subject COVID-19 en_US
dc.subject Social protection en_US
dc.title The labour market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa: An update with NIDS-CRAM Wave 2 en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US


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