TY  - SER
AU  - Anukriti, S.
AU  -  Herrera-Almanza, Catalina
AU  -  Ochmann, Sophie
TI  - The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women's Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India
SN  - 2574-0768
PB  - AEA Papers and Proceedings
KW  -  Expectations
KW  -  Income Distribution
KW  -  Migration
KW  -  Non-labor Discrimination, Time Allocation and Labor Supply, Wage Level and Structure
KW  -  Wage Differentials, Economic Development: Human Resources
KW  - Human Development
N2  - Youth unemployment and gender gaps in labor market outcomes are key policy challenges across developing countries. Young job seekers may struggle to find jobs because of their biased beliefs and unrealistic aspirations about the labor market. We study whether exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the labor market aspirations and expectations of female vocational students in Haryana, India. We find that exposure to the pandemic lowered young women's wage aspirations and made them more realistic, especially in rural areas. A potential mechanism for these effects is the decline in rural women's willingness to migrate for work due to the pandemic
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20241119
ER  -