CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Zharkova, Valeriia |
|---|---|
| Title | Work and Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Role of the Socioeconomic Status |
| Summary | The pandemic of COVID-19 has shed the light on the well-known social inequalities. The health care sector faces a lot of pressure and problems due to the spread of the virus; economic and financial sectors, production industries, labor market, and social well-being have been having many difficulties. The costs of the pandemic are distributed unequally among different social groups and people of different occupations. In this work, I seek to examine what is the role of socioeconomic status in work and life conditions of an individual in the time of the global pandemic. This analysis helps to understand that policies related to the pandemic should target people with the lower socioeconomic status, as they are the most vulnerable to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. To test the relationship between the work and life conditions and socioeconomic status of individuals I use the COVID Impact Survey for 2020, which is conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Data Foundation. The survey is designed to see how social life, economic status, health, and perception are changing during the pandemic. Using the data from the survey I develop several logistic models. I find that higher socioeconomic status in terms of higher education degree, larger household income, and residence in the neighborhoods with a higher trust level makes people more likely to have an opportunity to move their work online, avoid public places, and less likely to get unemployed. Additionally, occupation is a very important factor in the work conditions during the pandemic. |
| Supervisor | Kisilowski, Maciej |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/zharkova_valeriia.pdf |
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