Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227287 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13760
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that employment and earnings were decimated by the lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 crisis. It examines workers' desire for a job guarantee in this setting. Workers who had a job guarantee before the crisis were relatively shielded by not being hit quite so hard in terms of the increased incidence of job loss or working zero hours and earnings losses. A stated choice experiment contained in the survey reveals evidence that low-wage workers are willing to give up around a quarter of their daily wage for a job guarantee. And direct survey questions corroborate this, with informal, young and female workers being most likely to want a job guarantee, and to want it even more due to the current crisis.
Subjects: 
job guarantee
India
urban labour markets
job vignettes
COVID-19
JEL: 
J46
J68
L52
P25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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