Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Juan C. Palomino
Author-Email: juan.palomino@spi.ox.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Oxford (UK), INET and Department of Social Policy and Intervention.
Author-Name: Juan G. Rodríguez
Author-Email: juangabr@ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), ICAE, EQUALITAS and CEDESOG.
Author-Name: Raquel Sebastian
Author-Email: raquel.sebastian@ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), ICAE and EQUALITAS.
Title: The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: Poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions
Abstract: We evaluate the distributional consequences of social distancing for the case of Spanish regions. Under 2 months of lockdown plus 10 months of partial functioning 
	our study consistently finds potential wage losses that are sizeable and uneven across the wage distribution all around Spain, but with different intensity depending 
	on the region’s productive structure. The increase of the headcount poverty index oscillates between 8.2 (Navarre) and 19.2 (the Balearic Islands) percentage points, 
	while the Gini coefficient rises between 2.3 (Navarre) and 5.3 (the Balearic Islands) Gini points. We also find that inequality between regions increases, eroding 
	regional cohesion in Spain.
Classification-JEL: D33, E24, J21, J31.
Keywords: COVID-19; poverty; inequality; teleworking; social distancing; regions; Spain.
Length: 25 pages 
Creation-Date: 2021-02
Number: 2021-03
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