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. 2021 Jul 14;39(1):101–128. doi: 10.1007/s40888-021-00234-8

Table 4.

Odds Ratio Estimates—Likelihood of Job Loss and No Recovery, overall, and for men and women

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Job loss Overall No Recovery Overall Job loss: Men Job loss: Women No Recovery: Men No Recovery: Women
Gender:female 6.809*** 11.20***
(Base:male) (1.516) (1.810)
Caste group: SC/ST 1.290* 0.523*** 1.327** 1.001 0.555*** 0.551***
(Base: general category) (0.180) (0.0848) (0.185) (0.370) (0.103) (0.122)
Caste group: OBC 1.160 0.608** 1.163 1.429 0.635** 0.739
(0.150) (0.848) (0.166) (0.434) (0.115) (0.176)
Caste group: 0.922 1.011 0.850 1.625 1.088 1.237
Intermediate (0.159) (0.172) (0.153) (0.868) (0.289) (0.399)
Caste group: not stated 1.216 1.732 1.224 0.940 1.732 1.700
(0.354) (0.609) (0.336) (0.699) (0.609) (1.128)
Religion: Muslim 0.990 0.877 0.965 1.515 0.631*** 6.630***
(Base: Hindu) (0.131) (0.146) (0.136) (0.584) (0.107) (4.029)
Religion: others 1.040 1.733*** 0.991 1.541 1.689** 2.765***
(0.194) (0.260) (0.184) (0.944) (0.348) (1.004)
Education: < 5th standard 1.456*** 0.745** 1.633*** 0.352** 0.791 0.537
(Base: graduate & above) (0.136) (0.0997) (0.203) (0.150) (0.129) (0.254)
Education: 6th-10th 1.230*** 0.709*** 1.336*** 0.331** 0.745** 0.582
Standard (0.0930) (0.0824) (0.0956) (0.164) (0.108) (0.208)
Education: 11th-12th 1.137** 0.743** 1.208*** 0.421** 0.795 0.384
Standard (0.0710) (0.105) (0.0782) (0.182) (0.152) (0.227)
Age: 15-24 years 4.796*** 9.769*** 4.178*** 3.659** 13.41*** 8.581***
(Base: 35–44 years) (0.662) (2.199) (0.515) (2.066) (5.465) (6.292)
Age: 25-34 years 1.611*** 2.196*** 1.519*** 1.703 3.540*** 2.061*
(0.164) (0.342) (0.177) (0.752) (1.354) (0.875)
Age: 45 + years 1.285** 2.355*** 1.376*** 1.118 6.541*** 1.811***
(0.135) (0.287) (0.151) (0.325) (2.362) (0.390)
Employment arrangement: daily wage/casual labour 2.167*** 1.006 2.000*** 5.442*** 0.974 1.554
(Base: Permanent salaried) (0.250) (0.249) (0.252) (2.636) (0.260) (1.316)
Employment arrangement: salaried temporary

1.511***

(0.171)

1.099

(0.212)

1.508***

(0.150)

1.475

(0.534)

0.961

(0.236)

1.775

(1.025)

Employment arrangement: self-employed

1.390**

(0.228)

1.280

(0.296)

1.306*

(0.205)

2.918**

(1.332)

1.093

(0.2893)

2.176

(1.663)

Sector: agriculture 1.109 1.915*** 1.147 0.748 2.068** 1.336
(Base: services-modern) (0.248) (0.472) (0.220) (0.507) (0.671) (0.759)
Sector: manufacturing 1.179 1.209 1.246 0.634 1.092 1.353
(0.250) (0.203) (0.242) (0.390) (0.240) (0.763)
Sector: construction 1.327 1.025 1.385 0.804 0.953 1.494
(0.326) (0.176) (0.326) (0.462) (0.238) (0.690)
Sector: trade 1.241 1.084 1.271 1.232 1.132 0.835
(0.330) (0.176) (0.331) (0.764) (0.243) (0.347)
Sector: services—non-professional 1.458* 1.074 1.453** 3.599** 1.045 1.333
(0.311) (0.238) (0.250) (2.137) (0.242) (0.680)
Sector: services—health & education

1.495**

(0.248)

1.505

(0.379)

1.177

(0.198)

2.694**

(1.127)

1.552

(0.505)

1.318

(0.780)

Number of children in household

1.002

(0.0426)

0.915

(0.0894)

1.015

(0.0510)

0.996

(0.126)

0.976

(0.0682)

0.810

(0.104)

Household size 0.935*** 1.094* 0.931*** 0.982 1.087* 1.235*
(0.0196) (0.0449) (0.0223) (0.112) (0.0475) (0.152)
Married 0.569*** 0.527*** 0.430*** 2.285** 0.243*** 3.058***
(0.0826) (0.150) (0.0470) (0.781) (0.0469) (0.972)
Monthly income in December 2019 (log) 0.917** 1.064 0.901** 0.942 1.105 0.955
(0.0360) (0.0469) (0.0387) (0.0851) (0.0859) (0.0689)
Rural 0.678*** 0.865*** 0.658*** 0.804 0.844*** 0.753
(Base: Urban) (0.0598) (0.0529) (0.0597) (0.208) (0.0478) (0.177)
State-level controls Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Constant 1.6340 .09183 2.568798 4.198944 .0528123 .6005594
Observations 223,330 7939 19,859 2009 6587 1220
Pseudo R square 0.1753 0.2431 0.1546 0.2199 0.2341 0.1618

Exponentiated coefficients; Standard errors in parentheses; Standard errors clustered at the state level, *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01

See Table 5 for details of industry classification