COVID‐19 and Inequalities
By Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Robert A. Joyce, Xiaowei Xu. Fiscal studies, 2020
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Abstract This paper brings together evidence from various data sources and the most recent studies to describe what we know so far about the impacts of the COVID‐19 crisis on inequalities across several key domains of life, including employment and ability to earn, family life and health. We show how these new fissures interact with existing inequalities along various key dimensions, including socio‐economic status, education, age, gender, ethnicity and geography. We find that the deep underlying inequalities and policy challenges that we already had are crucial in understanding the complex impacts of the pandemic itself and our response to it, and that the crisis does in itself have the potential to exacerbate some of these pre‐existing inequalities fairly directly. Moreover, it seems likely that the current crisis will leave legacies that will impact inequalities in the long term. These possibilities are not all disequalising, but many are.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Modeling and Simulation
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- Women, Gender equality and COVID-19 (2020, background): “For example, unemployment increased more for women than men in the USA (U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS], 2020b), UK (Blundell et al., 2020), Australia, Columbia, Canada, Japan and South Korea (ILO, 2020c).”