Collapse and recovery : how the COVID-19 pandemic eroded human capital and what to do about it |
Autore | Schady Norbert |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington : , : World Bank Publications, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (189 pages) |
Disciplina | 330.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HollaAlaka
SabarwalShwetlena SilvaJoana |
Soggetto topico |
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 - Economic aspects
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 - Influence Human capital |
ISBN | 1-4648-1934-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Main Messages -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- The pandemic destroyed human capital at critical moments in the life cycle -- Policies to reverse human capital losses -- Building agile, resilient, and adaptive human development systems for future shocks -- A human capital recovery: What will it take? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 A Human Capital Collapse: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Childhood, School-Age Children, and Young Adults -- A pending crisis in productivity could last for multiple generations -- Building human capital requires sustained investments along many dimensions from many sources -- Human capital trajectories are set during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood -- Shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic decrease both levels of human capital and subsequent rates of accumulation -- Countries have three potential paths following the pandemic: A permanently lower trajectory, partial recovery, or complete recovery -- Choices today matter: Governments can change their recovery paths -- The time window for addressing setbacks in human capital accumulation is short -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Poor Start: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development and Subsequent Human Capital Accumulation -- Shocks occurring during early childhood can persist for decades-and even across generations -- The pandemic reduced critical investments in young children -- Children's development slowed during lockdowns -- These early setbacks will have long-lasting ramifications for human capital accumulation, earnings, and economic growth -- How can policy get young children back on track? -- Using the pandemic to prioritize investments in children -- Notes -- References.
Chapter 3 Learning Losses and Dropouts: The Heavy Cost COVID-19 Imposed on School-Age Children -- Schooling generates enormous returns for people and societies -- The COVID-19 pandemic led to shockingly long school closures -- How have governments responded to the pandemic so far? -- What should governments do now? Prioritize effective action -- Inaction is also a decision (a poor one) -- Annex 3A. Methodology for estimating lost Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Lost Opportunities: The Protracted Effects of the Pandemic on Youth and Young Adults -- Youth is a critical moment in the life cycle -- The pandemic led to a sharp reduction and an uneven recovery in employment globally -- Youth employment and wages fell sharply and have recovered in some countries but not in others -- Declines in youth employment were not fully made up by increases in school attendance -- Beyond employment and schooling: Other adverse effects of the pandemic on youth -- How have governments responded so far to the pandemic-related losses in young people's human capital? -- What should governments do now? -- Putting it all together -- Annex 4A. Methodology to calculate changes in employment (and other outcomes) that can be attributed to the pandemic -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Recovery and Resilience: From Human Development Programs to Systems -- A moment of reflection -- What are the critical components of an HD system that can respond to systemic shocks? -- How did HD systems fare during the pandemic? -- Building agile, resilient, and adaptive HD systems -- The path forward -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Human Capital: What Will It Take? -- Losses in human capital have been deep and pervasive -- The pandemic revealed systemic weaknesses in providing integrated solutions. Human capital losses from the pandemic threaten the productivity of multiple generations -- Recovery and resilience require immediate investment-they are not automatic -- How can countries prioritize recovery strategies when fiscal space is tight? -- The path to recovery -- Notes -- References -- Boxes -- Box 1.1 How does the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic affect human capital? -- Box 2.1 What past shocks reveal about what can be expected during and immediately after a crisis -- Box 2.2 Identifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of maternal health services -- Box 2.3 Changes in the composition of patients versus changes in underlying health -- Box 2.4 Using predictions to deal with trends when estimating impacts of the pandemic -- Box 2.5 Measuring changes in skills due to the pandemic -- Box 3.1 Decomposing learning losses in forgone and forgotten learning using rich data from Bangladesh -- Box 3.2 The length of school closures is not correlated with country income or governance quality -- Box 4.1 How labor market scarring works -- Box 4.2 How wage subsidies in response to the pandemic differed by country income -- Box 4.3 Brazil's measures for both informal workers at risk of poverty and low-wage formal workers -- Box 5.1 Relying on prior investments to confront future crises better -- Box 5.2 How countries expanded their social protection programs during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Box 5.3 Leveraging the private sector and local partners to make the pandemic response more effective -- Box 5.4 The urgent need to strengthen human development systems to prepare for future pandemics -- Box 5.5 Togo's use of technology to extend support to vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Box 6.1 Transitions between stages of the life cycle are critical moments -- Figures. Figure ES.1 The pandemic led to steep losses in early childhood development and early learning in very young children in Bangladesh and Brazil -- Figure ES.2 During the pandemic, each month of school closures led to one month of learning losses, and more so in countries with lower GDP per capita -- Figure ES.3 Youth employment fell in most countries during the pandemic -- Figure ES.4 Declines in employment of young people during the pandemic were not offset by increases in schooling or training -- Figure ES.5 What are the paths to recovery? -- Figure 1.1 Human capital accumulates over the life cycle -- Figure 1.2 Human capital setbacks that occur at early ages can impair the entire trajectory of accumulation and lower future stocks of human capital -- Figure 1.3 Making a full recovery requires increasing the rate of human capital accumulation compared to trajectories before the pandemic -- Figure 2.1 The share of households and children who had to skip meals or eat smaller portions increased during early lockdowns in some countries -- Figure 2.2 In low-income countries, women and infants lacked critical services during the early pandemic period -- Figure 2.3 By 2021, coverage of essential childhood vaccines had yet to recover fully in many regions from its decline during lockdowns -- Figure 2.4 Pre-primary attendance has not recovered from the pandemic in many countries -- Figure 2.5 Mothers' mental health declined during early lockdowns in rural Colombia and rural Bangladesh, compared with levels in 2019 -- Figure 2.6 The pandemic induced large declines in cognitive and motor development among toddlers in rural Bangladesh, with larger effects on children whose mothers had less education -- Figure 2.7 Children in preschool lost skills in language and math in Brazil, Chile, Rwanda, and Uruguay. Figure 2.8 After the pandemic, learning of preschool-age children lagged behind pre-pandemic learning in Sobral, Brazil -- Figure 3.1 Globally, an average school-age child lost about one year of in-person schooling -- Figure 3.2 COVID-19 school closures had limited impacts on dropouts in middle-income countries but negative impacts in lower-income countries -- Figure 3.3 Dropout rates are higher for households with low education levels -- Figure 3.4 For 30 days of school closures, students lost 34 days of learning -- Figure 3.5 Learning losses were higher in countries with lower GDP per capita after controlling for length of school closures -- Figure 3.6 Regions vary in the Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) they lost due to the pandemic -- Figure 3.7 Countries that had similar Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) before the pandemic had vastly different experiences with learning losses -- Figure 3.8 Countries not losing many total Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) may have lost much in terms of pre-pandemic shares of LAYS (and vice versa) -- Figure 3.9 Approximately 30 percent of learning losses in Bangladesh were forgotten learning -- Figure B3.2.1 There is no systematic relationship between the length of school closures and log GDP per capita and an indicator of governance effectiveness -- Figure 4.1 Worldwide, employment fell sharply during the pandemic -- Figure 4.2 Youth employment declined sharply during the pandemic -- Figure 4.3 In many countries, the employment losses of youth during the pandemic were compounded by declines in wages -- Figure B4.1.1 Three scenarios show how short-term employment losses can affect a young person's future wages -- Figure 4.4 School enrollment increased in some countries and declined in others during the pandemic. Figure 4.5 The share of youth who were Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEETs) increased sharply in some countries during the pandemic. |
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Wage inequality in Latin America : understanding the past to prepare for the future / / Julián Messina and Joana Silva |
Autore | Messina Julián |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Publications, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs |
Disciplina | 331.215081 |
Collana | Latin American Development Forum |
Soggetto topico | Wage differentials |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4648-1040-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466809403321 |
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Wage Inequality in Latin America : : Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future / / Julian Messina |
Autore | Messina Julian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
Disciplina | 331.215081 |
Collana | Latin American Development Forum |
Soggetto topico | Wage differentials |
ISBN | 1-4648-1040-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Chapter 1: Introduction; Rationale; Road Map of the Book; Annex 1A. Background Papers for This Book; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Wage Inequality Changes since 1990: Key Trends and Stylized Facts; Introduction; Trends in Overall Inequality; Trends in Wage Inequality; Contribution of Skills and Education to the Changes in Overall Wage Inequality; Contribution of Pay Differentials among Workers with Similar Skills to Overall Wage Inequality
Labor Supply Trends: Rising Numbers of More-Educated WorkersMacroeconomic Conditions and Labor Demand Shifts; The Labor Market of Skilled and Unskilled Workers and Differences across Tradable and Nontradable Sectors; Informality and Wage Inequality; Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Main Trends, and Correlations between Key Inequality-Related Indicators; Conclusions; Annex 2A. Supplementary Wage and Income Inequality Figures; Annex 2B. Robustness of Returns to Skill to Different Estimation Methodologies Annex 2C. Robustness of Employment and Skill-Use Growth in Tradable and Nontradable Industries to a Different DefinitionAnnex 2D. Country-by-Country Changes in Inequality-Related Indicators and Correlations between the Key Variables; Annex 2E. Supplementary Informality Figures and Correlations; Notes; References; Chapter 3: The Role of Labor Supply in Wage Inequality Trends; Introduction; Skill Supply and Demand in the Determination of Relative Wages; Falling Wages of Recent Cohorts of College-Educated Workers: Degraded Tertiary versus Skill Obsolescence; The Degraded Tertiary Effect Conclusions, Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Role of Labor Demand Conditions in Wage Inequality Trends; Introduction; Shifts in Domestic Demand and Rising Wages for Unskilled Workers; Exchange Rate Appreciation from the Commodity Boom and Interfirm Wage Differentials; Why Skill-Biased Technological Change, Job Polarization, and Traditional Trade Channels Do Not Explain the Decline in Wage Inequality; Conclusions; Annex 4A. Skill Intensities and Employment Expansion during the Commodity Boom in Selected Latin American Countries Annex 4B. Why Exchange Rate Appreciation Should Reduce Wage Inequality within an IndustryNotes; References; Chapter 5: Exploring the Role of Minimum Wages and Unions in Recent Inequality Trends; Introduction; The Role of the Minimum Wage; The Differentiated Effect of the Minimum Wage on Wage Inequality in Good and Bad Times; The Role of Unionization in Wage Inequality; Conclusions; Annex 5A. Supplementary Minimum Wage Information; Annex 5B. Who Makes the Minimum Wage in Latin America?; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Conclusions and Policy Reflections; Introduction; Review of the Trends |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796585203321 |
Messina Julian
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Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2018 | ||
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Wage Inequality in Latin America : : Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future / / Julian Messina |
Autore | Messina Julian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
Disciplina | 331.215081 |
Collana | Latin American Development Forum |
Soggetto topico | Wage differentials |
ISBN | 1-4648-1040-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Chapter 1: Introduction; Rationale; Road Map of the Book; Annex 1A. Background Papers for This Book; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Wage Inequality Changes since 1990: Key Trends and Stylized Facts; Introduction; Trends in Overall Inequality; Trends in Wage Inequality; Contribution of Skills and Education to the Changes in Overall Wage Inequality; Contribution of Pay Differentials among Workers with Similar Skills to Overall Wage Inequality
Labor Supply Trends: Rising Numbers of More-Educated WorkersMacroeconomic Conditions and Labor Demand Shifts; The Labor Market of Skilled and Unskilled Workers and Differences across Tradable and Nontradable Sectors; Informality and Wage Inequality; Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Main Trends, and Correlations between Key Inequality-Related Indicators; Conclusions; Annex 2A. Supplementary Wage and Income Inequality Figures; Annex 2B. Robustness of Returns to Skill to Different Estimation Methodologies Annex 2C. Robustness of Employment and Skill-Use Growth in Tradable and Nontradable Industries to a Different DefinitionAnnex 2D. Country-by-Country Changes in Inequality-Related Indicators and Correlations between the Key Variables; Annex 2E. Supplementary Informality Figures and Correlations; Notes; References; Chapter 3: The Role of Labor Supply in Wage Inequality Trends; Introduction; Skill Supply and Demand in the Determination of Relative Wages; Falling Wages of Recent Cohorts of College-Educated Workers: Degraded Tertiary versus Skill Obsolescence; The Degraded Tertiary Effect Conclusions, Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Role of Labor Demand Conditions in Wage Inequality Trends; Introduction; Shifts in Domestic Demand and Rising Wages for Unskilled Workers; Exchange Rate Appreciation from the Commodity Boom and Interfirm Wage Differentials; Why Skill-Biased Technological Change, Job Polarization, and Traditional Trade Channels Do Not Explain the Decline in Wage Inequality; Conclusions; Annex 4A. Skill Intensities and Employment Expansion during the Commodity Boom in Selected Latin American Countries Annex 4B. Why Exchange Rate Appreciation Should Reduce Wage Inequality within an IndustryNotes; References; Chapter 5: Exploring the Role of Minimum Wages and Unions in Recent Inequality Trends; Introduction; The Role of the Minimum Wage; The Differentiated Effect of the Minimum Wage on Wage Inequality in Good and Bad Times; The Role of Unionization in Wage Inequality; Conclusions; Annex 5A. Supplementary Minimum Wage Information; Annex 5B. Who Makes the Minimum Wage in Latin America?; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Conclusions and Policy Reflections; Introduction; Review of the Trends |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821562903321 |
Messina Julian
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