Indian Express covers Rohini Pande's research on migrant workers and COVID-19
Research with Jenna Allard, Nils Enevoldsen, Maulik Jagnani, Charity Troyer Moore, Yusuf Neggers, and Simone Schaner finds that over a year after the first Covid-19 lockdown, migrants remain vulnerable.
by Karishma Mehrotra
MIGRANT WORKERS who returned to cities for work after the first Covid lockdown earned roughly five times as much as those who stayed back, and last year’s exodus affected women more than men, according to a Yale University survey that tracked 5,000 migrants across north and central India from April 2020 to February 2021.
The survey, which will be released online Wednesday, shows that only 45 per cent of female migrants returned to their urban workplaces — 40 per cent of them earned no income across a week in which they were tracked in February 2021.