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Pandemics and Inequality: Assessing the Impact of COVID-19
Furceri D.Loungani P.Ostry J. D.Pizzuto P.subject
InequalityInformalityCOVID-19Settore SECS-P/02 Politica EconomicaPandemicsdescription
This chapter provides evidence on the impact of major epidemics from the past two decades on inequality and job prospects. Our results justify the concern that the COVID-19 pandemic could significantly raise inequality; past events of this kind, even though much smaller in scale, have led to increases in the Gini coefficient, lowered the employment-to-population ratio for those with basic education compared to those with higher education, and pushed people into precarious work in the form of self-employment or in the informal sector.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 |