- This work arises from Reig Fundació's concern to find out objectively how the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the present and future of the working class in Andorra.
- Marta Alberch, the author has focused on different areas and has worked with more than a hundred indicators to analyze the situation and seek answers to the hypotheses of whether the working class has seen its material well-being affected and subjective, and whether the precariousness and vulnerability of a part of our society has been affected by the pandemic.
- The survey carried out by the CRES of the ARI (Andorra Research and Innovation) focused on people who were or had been in a situation of Temporary Suspension of the Employment Contract (STCT) or unemployed during the last months confirms that this is one of the segments of the population that have suffered the most from the effects of the crisis.
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Sant Julià de Lòria, January 13, 2022. The Reig Fundació study "LA COVID IN ANDORRA - ITS IMPACT ON THE WORKING CLASS ECONOMY" was presented today. The author is Marta Alberch Terrés, founder and director of Andtropia and has had the collaboration of the CRES of the ARI.
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As Deborah Ribas, president of Reig Fundació, declares, "this study basically focuses on the repercussions that the pandemic has had on our economy and specifically on the family economy. It is in this sense that the Foundation wanted to facilitate reflection on an epidemiological event of global scope that overturned our lives to unsuspected limits in many aspects. The work is a first, timely reading of this transformation".
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As the author explains, the study consists of two parts. The first is focused on how the pandemic has impacted Andorra and how we are recovering and includes data on the population, in general, and the salaried class, specifically. Demographic, economic, health and education data and indicators are collected there. And there has been an impact on the social and labor side given the consequences of the pandemic.
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In the second part, we sought to know how the pandemic has affected the working class in Andorra and shows the answers of working people who were on STCT or unemployed at some point, more or less long, since the beginning of the pandemic and are compared with those of the general population. They focus on four blocks: work situation, personal economic context, affects on their private life and leisure and free time.
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Very briefly, the conclusion that can be drawn from the study is that there have been groups that have been more impacted by the crisis than others such as temporary workers, women, wage earners in more precarious situations and people who have been in STCT or unemployed. This crisis has caused the precariousness of these groups and the internal inequalities between quintiles to have increased.
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The study has also included the possible trends that can occur this 2022 as a result of the health, economic and social crisis caused by Covid and that have been synthesized into five: uncertainty, price increases and crisis of supplies, reinventing oneself at work, with a gender perspective and social tensions.
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In the executive summary attached to this note, the main conclusions for each of the six areas that are part of the study are included. These conclusions have allowed us to formulate a series of actions to take into account and where to continue working in order to emerge stronger from this crisis that we have grouped into three areas: how to reduce the possible increase in the risk of poverty and situations of vulnerability; guarantee access to mental health services and act immediately to prevent their effects among the groups at greatest risk; and ensure that education, from pre-primary to post-compulsory, is not affected by this crisis as the long-term consequences can be significant.
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Finally, the authors would like to thank the collaboration of all the administrations, entities and people who participated and made this study possible.
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You can view the full report by clicking here
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Here you can read the executive summary and the presentation in infographics
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It is also available on the website of Reig Foundation
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