Impact of the Covid-19 crisis on India’s rural youth
Evidence from a panel survey and an experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11913090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bhaskar Chakravorty (0000-0001-8510-0024, University of Warwick, corresponding author), Apurav Yash Bhatiya (0000-0003-3636-9048, University of Birmingham), Clément Imbert (University of Warwick), Maximilian Lohnert, Poonam Panda, Roland Rathelot (0000-0001-5694-0112, ENSAE Paris) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 168 |
| Pages | 106242-106242 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-750X • E-ISSN: 1873-5991 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106242 |
| OpenAlex | W4360620065 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 29 |
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
Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Job insecurity · Political science · Psychological intervention · Unemployment · Vocational education · Work (physics · Workfare · Agricultural risk and resilience · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Engineering · Medicine · Nursing
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| Citations per year | 1.67 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |