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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought multi-layered vulnerabilities across the social, political, humanitarian, ethical, and economic dimensions of people’s everyday lives. While many countries followed strict lockdowns, control on mobility, economic and social activity, and social distancing requirements, India adopted a very stringent lockdown on 24 March 2020, with only four hours of notice given to the entire population (Ghosh in J Ind Bus Econ 47:519–530, 2020).
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An unregulated point of meeting or adda for daily wage workers, who visit these points from afar every day in search for daily wage work, mostly in areas of construction, etc.
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The survey included 200 interviews. However, due to discrepancies in few of the interview, only 195 could be used for the final analysis.
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The correlation coefficient is a statistical value that measures the relationship and linear interdependence of any two variables. If any two variables are positively correlated, the coefficient will be positive and vice versa, therefore, the value of the correlation coefficient runs from −1 to 1. Squaring the correlation coefficient gives us R2, which measures the strength of the relationship between the two variables and not the direction of the correlation.
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Mohan, D., Sekhani, R., Mistry, J., Singh, A., Sreedhar, S., Agarwal, S. (2022). Labour Markets of India During a Pandemic: Observations from an Ethnographic Survey: In Cities of Lucknow and Pune Narratives of Daily Wage Workers Across Mazdoor Mandis. In: Nakray, K., Yi, Z., Clammer, J., Zhang, W. (eds) Social and Economic Transitions in China and India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6124-3_3
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