Japan’s Women Disproportionately Hurt by Covid-19 Income Slump
- Research from MIT and Tokyo University shows impact disparity
- Vulnerable female workers saw losses worth 9.75% of earnings
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After helping fuel a remarkable surge in Japan’s employment rolls -- in the face of a declining population -- women have become the hardest hit in the nation’s Covid-19 recession.
That’s one takeaway from a study of the damage to income and spending power on different segments of the Japanese labor market conducted by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Tokyo.