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| dc.title | COVID-19 and the labor market in the absence of lockdowns:evidence from Nicaragua |
| dc.contributor.author | Higa, Minoru |
| dc.contributor.author | Huang, Zhen |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva Porto, María Teresa |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Country Office in Nicaragua |
| dc.coverage | Nicaragua |
| dc.coverage | Central America |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-01T00:09:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2022-09-01T00:09:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | What is the effect of Covid-19 on labor markets when there is no lockdown? We answer this question using individual-level survey data for Nicaragua from January 2019 to May 2021. We find a negative impact of Covid-19 on the labor force participation right after the pandemic, particularly for young females, but also a quick recovery. We find that female labor force participation is strongly related to school attendance. Using high-frequency smartphone data we find that visits to school areas dropped sharply by 50%, but they recovered soon as with the female labor force participation |
| dc.format.extent | 24 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004437 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/COVID-19-and-the-labor-market-in-the-absence-of-lockdownsevidence-from-Nicaragua.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Labor Market |
| dc.subject | Educational Institution |
| dc.subject | Coronavirus |
| dc.subject | Pandemics |
| dc.subject | Labor Force Participation |
| dc.subject | Women |
| dc.subject | Lockdown |
| dc.subject | Labor |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure |
| dc.subject.jelcode | O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development |
| dc.subject.keywords | COVID-19 |
| dc.type | Technical Notes |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-TN-02543 |
| idb.operation | NI-T1283 |