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

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  • Ronak Jain

    (Harvard University)

  • Ihsaan Bassier

    (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

  • Joshua Budlender

    (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

  • Rocco Zizzamia

    (University of Oxford)

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.

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  • Ronak Jain & Ihsaan Bassier & Joshua Budlender & Rocco Zizzamia, 2020. "The labour market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa: An update with NIDS-CRAM Wave 2," SALDRU Working Papers 272, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
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    1. Surbhi Kesar & Snehashish Bhattacharya & Lopamudra Banerjee, 2022. "Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(6), pages 1254-1282, November.

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    Keywords

    Labor markets; poverty; unemployment; COVID-19; social protection;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J48 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Particular Labor Markets; Public Policy
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • H84 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Disaster Aid

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