Flexible contracts and ethnic economic inequalities across gender during the UK’s COVID-19 recession
利用2021年英国全国平等调查数据，研究新冠疫情衰退期间不同族群和性别在灵活就业中的分布差异，发现灵活合同比例高的少数族群经济状况更差。
Abstract Was it their disproportionate presence in flexible employment or in shut-down occupations that made some ethnic minority groups vulnerable to adverse labour market outcomes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recession? Using the COVID-19 recession in the UK as a case study, we employ weighted linear probability models with 2021 data from the Evidence for Equality National Survey to look at changes in economic indicators across ethnic groups and gender. We report heterogeneity in flexible employment rates within the non-White group and between the non-White and the White British group. By using a conditional decomposition method, we conclude that those ethnic minority groups who were disproportionately on flexible contracts experienced worse economic effects than the White British group.