Abstract This paper brings together evidence from various data sources and the most recent studies to describe what we know so far about the impacts of the COVID‐19 crisis on inequalities across several key domains of life, including employment and ability to earn, family life and health. We show how these new fissures interact with existing inequalities along various key dimensions, including socio‐economic status, education, age, gender, ethnicity and geography. We find that the deep underlying inequalities and policy challenges that we already had are crucial in understanding the complex impacts of the pandemic itself and our response to it, and that the crisis does in itself have the potential to exacerbate some of these pre‐existing inequalities fairly directly. Moreover, it seems likely that the current crisis will leave legacies that will impact inequalities in the long term. These possibilities are not all disequalising, but many are.

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Covid-19 和不平等


摘要 本文汇集了来自各种数据源和最新研究的证据，描述了我们迄今为止所了解的 COVID-19 危机对生活中几个关键领域不平等的影响，包括就业和赚钱能力、家庭生活和健康。我们展示了这些新的裂痕如何与各个关键维度上现有的不平等相互作用，包括社会经济地位、教育、年龄、性别、种族和地理。我们发现，我们已经面临的根深蒂固的不平等和政策挑战对于理解这一流行病本身的复杂影响以及我们的应对措施至关重要，而且危机本身确实有可能加剧其中一些先前存在的不平等相当直接。此外，当前的危机很可能会留下长期影响不平等的遗产。这些可能性并不都是不平等的，但很多都是如此。