Goswami Diti, Kujur Sandeep Kumar
Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Rohtak, 124010, Haryana, India.
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, Tamil Nadu, India.
Int J Disaster Risk Reduct. 2023 Jul;93:103763. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103763. Epub 2023 May 26.
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.
新冠疫情引发的健康灾难造成了劳动力危机。我们研究了新冠疫情引发的国家级直接（如为劳动者提供免费食物、最低收入和交通服务）和间接（如对返乡移民进行技能摸底以及允许工厂延长轮班时长）降低风险的劳动力策略对印度城乡就业率的影响。这些降低风险的劳动力策略保障了生计，并劝阻劳动者在疫情期间不要冒险进入人际接触频繁的工作场所，以免危及生命。这降低了就业率。具体而言，直接降低风险的劳动力策略减少了城乡就业，而间接降低风险的劳动力策略仅减少了城市就业。这种缓解效应证明了凯恩斯主义干预主义复原力技术的重要性，这些技术能在灾难期间保护劳动者并降低风险。
