Impact of Covid-19 on Labor Market Outcomes of Refugees and Nationals in Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23543333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mirko Vintar, Theresa Parrish Beltramo, Antonia Johanna Sophie Delius, Dennis Timo Egger, Utz Johann Pape (0000-0002-1802-6810) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Publisher | The World Bank (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1596/1813-9450-9960 |
| OpenAlex | W4293098597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper investigates the labor \n market outcomes for refugee and urban national communities \n in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic, using five waves of a \n novel high-frequency phone survey collected between May 2020 \n and June 2021. Even after conditioning on age, gender, \n educational attainment, and area of living, only 32 percent \n of refugees were employed in February 2020 compared with 63 \n percent of nationals. With the onset of the pandemic in \n March 2020, the share of employed for both refugees and \n nationals fell by around 36 percent, such that in May-June \n 2020, only 21 percent of refugees were still employed \n compared with 40 percent of nationals. Using a panel setup \n with wave and location fixed effects, the analysis finds \n that the recovery in the share of employed, hours worked, \n and household incomes was slower and often stagnant for \n refugees compared with the recovery of nationals. These \n differences cannot be explained by demographic factors, \n living in an urban or camp environment, having been employed \n previously, or sectoral choice, suggesting that a third, \n unobservable “refugee factor” inhibits refugees’ recovery \n after a major shock and aggravates preexisting vulnerabilities.
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Demographic economics · Economics · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Outbreak · Political science · Refugee · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Virology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation velocity | recent |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |