The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions
利用2020年欧盟收入与生活条件数据，估计了新冠疫情导致的社交距离措施对西班牙各地区贫困和工资不平等的影响，发现贫困率上升8.3至20.7个百分点，工资基尼系数上升2.6至6.0点，且地区间不平等加剧。
The necessary social distancing to limit the spread of COVID-19 during the recent pandemic implies that regions with higher essentiality and teleworking levels have lower vulnerability to poverty and inequality, the opposite occurring in regions intensive in closed activities. Using the latest 2020 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, we estimate that in the absence of compensating measures, this shock can result in sizable but unequal increases in poverty (between 8.3 and 20.7 percentage points (p.p.)) and wage inequality (between 2.6 and 6.0 Gini points) across Spanish regions. Moreover, inequality between regions can rise, which would erode regional cohesion in Spain.