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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Employment and Food Security: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia with Social Safety Nets

  • Journal of Regional Studies and Development
  • Abbr : JRSD
  • 2023, 32(1), pp.1-26
  • DOI : 10.22739/ipaid.2023.32.1.1
  • Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies
  • Received : March 9, 2023
  • Accepted : April 22, 2023
  • Published : April 30, 2023

Pratiwi Ira Eka 1 Yoo Tae Hwan 1

1Kyung Hee University, Korea

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study examined the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on employment and food security in Indonesia. We adopted the World Bank’s high-frequency monitoring data for Indonesian households and used the logit and probit regression methods for analyses. This study confirmed that the COVID-19 lockdown policy has no significant impact on employment, regardless of the sizeable number of households that lost their jobs during the early stage of the pandemic. However, implementing lockdown policy had a significant negative effect on food security, leading to a 2.8 percentage-point decrease in the probability of food security of the households located in the lockdown area. Further analysis revealed that the social safety nets received by the households could increase the probability of employment during lockdown in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic by 4.7 percentage points. Meanwhile, households that received social safety nets are considered vulnerable to acquittance from food insecurity during the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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