2021
DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2021.726489
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Unemployment in Socially Disadvantaged Communities in Tennessee, US, During the COVID-19

Abstract: Urban studies related to previous pandemics and impacts on cities focused on vulnerable categories including poor and marginalized groups. We continue this tradition and analyze unemployment outcomes in a context of a multi-dimensional social disadvantage that is unfolding during the ongoing public health crisis. For this, we first propose an approach to identify communities by social disadvantage status captured by several key metrics. Second, we apply this methodology in the study of the effect of social dis… Show more

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“…Unemployment is a major indicator of social vulnerability [ [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] ]. Employed persons typically have a higher standard of living and better access to health care, and given their stable employment conditions, they can cope better with economic restrictions.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unemployment is a major indicator of social vulnerability [ [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] ]. Employed persons typically have a higher standard of living and better access to health care, and given their stable employment conditions, they can cope better with economic restrictions.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Once a decision was made on the risk factors for severe COVID-19, data was collected and used to compute a composite variable as summed-up z-scores of the above variables to represent social disadvantage (Antipova and Momeni, 2021).…”
Section: Social Disadvantage Index Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A methodological flowchart for this study is presented in Figure 1. Finally, the impact of social disadvantage on economic wellbeing grew stronger as the pandemic progressed compared with the pre-pandemic period (Antipova and Momeni, 2021), thus, health assessment at different time points particularly for disadvantaged communities is needed due to likely variations in inequality in exposure and pandemic susceptibility (Karaye and Horney, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%