Risk-reducing strategies and labour vulnerability during the pandemic in India

IF 4.2 1区地球科学 Q1 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International journal of disaster risk reduction Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103763

Diti Goswami , Sandeep Kumar Kujur

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The Covid-19 health disaster has created a labour crisis. We examine the impact of the Covid-19 induced state-level direct (such as providing free food, minimum income, and transportation services for the labourers) and indirect (such as skill mapping of the return migrants and allowing extended hour shifts in the factories) risk-reducing labour strategies on urban and rural employment rates in India. These risk-reducing labour strategies secure livelihood and discourage labourers from risking their lives by joining the workplace of high interpersonal human contact during the pandemic. This reduces employment rates. Specifically, direct risk-reducing labour strategies reduce employment in urban and rural areas, while indirect risk-reducing labour strategies lessen employment only in urban areas. The mitigating effect justifies the importance of the Keynesian interventionist resilience techniques that safeguard the labourers and reduce the risks during the disaster.

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印度疫情期间的风险降低战略和劳动力脆弱性

新冠肺炎健康灾难造成了一场劳工危机。我们研究了新冠肺炎引发的国家级直接（如为劳动者提供免费食品、最低收入和交通服务）和间接（如为返乡移民绘制技能图和允许工厂延长轮班时间）降低风险的劳动力战略对印度城乡就业率的影响。这些降低风险的劳工战略确保了生计，并阻止劳工在疫情期间加入人际交往频繁的工作场所，冒着生命危险。这降低了就业率。具体而言，直接降低风险的劳动战略减少了城市和农村地区的就业，而间接降低风险的劳动力战略只减少了城市地区的就业。缓解效果证明了凯恩斯主义干预主义恢复力技术的重要性，该技术在灾难期间保护劳动者并降低风险。

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International journal of disaster risk reduction GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARYMETEOROLOGY-METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

CiteScore

8.70

自引率

18.00%

发文量

688

审稿时长

79 days

期刊介绍： The International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR) is the journal for researchers, policymakers and practitioners across diverse disciplines: earth sciences and their implications; environmental sciences; engineering; urban studies; geography; and the social sciences. IJDRR publishes fundamental and applied research, critical reviews, policy papers and case studies with a particular focus on multi-disciplinary research that aims to reduce the impact of natural, technological, social and intentional disasters. IJDRR stimulates exchange of ideas and knowledge transfer on disaster research, mitigation, adaptation, prevention and risk reduction at all geographical scales: local, national and international. Key topics:- -multifaceted disaster and cascading disasters -the development of disaster risk reduction strategies and techniques -discussion and development of effective warning and educational systems for risk management at all levels -disasters associated with climate change -vulnerability analysis and vulnerability trends -emerging risks -resilience against disasters. The journal particularly encourages papers that approach risk from a multi-disciplinary perspective.