Covid-19 & Income Mobility in Iran

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Mehri Khonakdari, Reza | 2022

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 55664 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management and Economics
Advisor(s): Keshavarz Haddad, Gholamreza
Abstract:
During the covid-19 pandemic, in many countries, women's employment sector received more impact than men's. Some researchers consider this incident due to a decrease in the supply of women due to the closure of childcare centers and absenteeism in schools. Some consider this to be due to a reduction in the demand for women's labor due to the damage to the service sector. In this research, using the transition matrix, we showed that, during the epidemic period, the households in which women were employed in the pre-epidemic period (first group) had a greater reduction in income mobility than the households in which only men were employed (second group). Then, using the ordered logit of regression discontinuity model, we found that the first group was more likely to be in the lower income quintiles than the second group during the epidemic period. Then, with ordered difference in difference (DID) model, we found that among the households where women were employed before the epidemic and lost their jobs during the epidemic, the probability of income drop of mothers was higher than other women.
Keywords:
Mobility ; Epidemic ; COVID-19 ; Income Mobility ; Women Employment ; Ordered Logit Model

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