Covid Lockdown and Employment in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Ducanes, Geoffrey, Daway-Ducanes, Sarah Lynne S.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: COVID-19; difference-in-difference analysis; employment; extensive margin; hard lockdown; intensive margin; Business; Economics; Labor Economics; Labor Relations; Public Health; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/219; https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2348547
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted employment worldwide, mainly due to social distancing measures–hard lockdowns especially. Using difference-in-differences (DiD) analysis on Philippine Labor Force Survey (LFS) data, which exploits (1) the preemptive and selective application of a hard lock...