The market-reach of pandemics: Evidence from female workers in Ethiopia's ready-made garment industry.
COVID-19
Employment
Ethiopia
Industrial Parks
Migration
Journal
World development
ISSN: 0305-750X
Titre abrégé: World Dev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9878856
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
Historique:
accepted:
28
08
2020
entrez:
19
10
2020
pubmed:
20
10
2020
medline:
20
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In a globalized world, pandemics transmit impacts through markets. We document employment changes, coping strategies, and welfare of garment factory workers in Ethiopia's largest industrial park during the early stages of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic. We field a phone survey of female workers during a two month period in which cases are rapidly rising globally, but not locally. Our data suggest significant changes in employment, high levels of migration away from urban areas to rural areas if women are no longer working, and high levels of food insecurity. These findings compel a research and policy focus on documenting and mitigating the market-reach of pandemics on low-income workers at the margins.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33071434
doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105179
pii: S0305-750X(20)30306-5
pmc: PMC7556233
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
105179Informations de copyright
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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