Labor Markets in Crisis: The Double Liability of Low-Wage Work During COVID-19

IF 2.4 3区管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Industrial Relations Pub Date : 2021-02-03 DOI:10.1111/irel.12269

Kourtney Koebel, Dionne Pohler

引用次数: 6

Abstract

We adopt a novel identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous effects of Canada’s COVID-19 economic shutdown on hours worked across the earnings distribution. Early labor-market analyses found that workers in the bottom of the earnings distribution experienced a much larger reduction in hours worked than workers in the top of the earnings distribution. Our analysis reveals a double liability of low-wage work during Canada’s COVID-19 economic shutdown: while workers in every quintile experienced a large reduction in hours on average, significant increases in hours were only present among workers in the bottom quintile. Implications for crisis income supports are discussed.

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危机中的劳动力市场:COVID-19期间低工资工作的双重责任

我们采用了一种新的识别策略来研究加拿大COVID-19经济停工对整个收入分配的工作时间的异质性影响。早期的劳动力市场分析发现，收入分布底部的工人比收入分布顶部的工人工作时间减少得更多。我们的分析显示，在加拿大新冠肺炎经济关闭期间，低薪工作存在双重责任:虽然每五分之一的工人平均工作时间大幅减少，但只有最低五分之一的工人工作时间大幅增加。讨论了危机收入支持的影响。

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Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-

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4.40

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8.70%

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期刊介绍： Corporate restructuring and downsizing, the changing employment relationship in union and nonunion settings, high performance work systems, the demographics of the workplace, and the impact of globalization on national labor markets - these are just some of the major issues covered in Industrial Relations. The journal offers an invaluable international perspective on economic, sociological, psychological, political, historical, and legal developments in labor and employment. It is the only journal in its field with this multidisciplinary focus on the implications of change for business, government and workers.