Social inequalities in human mobility during the Spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020

Many countries established strong population lockdowns as a response to the pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020. While these measures proved efficient in stopping the spreading of the virus, they also introduced collateral effects in the economies of these countries. We report in this work that the imprint...

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Autores principales: Hernando, Alberto, Mateo, David, Barrios, Ignacio, Plastino, Ángel Luis
Formato: Articulo Preprint
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
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Ciencias Exactas
Física
COVID-19
lockdowns
mobility
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/124763
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SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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topic Ciencias Exactas
Física
COVID-19
lockdowns
mobility
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Física
COVID-19
lockdowns
mobility
Hernando, Alberto
Mateo, David
Barrios, Ignacio
Plastino, Ángel Luis
Social inequalities in human mobility during the Spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020
topic_facet Ciencias Exactas
Física
COVID-19
lockdowns
mobility
description Many countries established strong population lockdowns as a response to the pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020. While these measures proved efficient in stopping the spreading of the virus, they also introduced collateral effects in the economies of these countries. We report in this work that the imprints in mobility of both the lockdown and post-lockdown on the Spanish population are measurable by means of the daily radius of gyration using mobile phone data. We cross mobility with economic data segmented by average salary per person so as to find large inequalities between low- and high-income populations. Indeed, low-income populations typically show a 17% higher radius of gyration than high-income ones during pre-lockdown (8.1 km vs. 6.9 km). However, this relative difference grows to a maximum during lock-down (3.3 km vs. 900 m) since most of the essential workers (carriers, nurses, supermarket cashiers, farmworkers, etc.) belong to the first segment. Post-lockdown shows reversed inequality in the weeks during summer vacations as high-income populations multiplied their pre-lockdown radius by 70% as a rebound effect driven by leisure, while low-income populations recovered their normal pre-lockdown radius. This period is correlated with an extraordinary increase in the number of new Covid cases, which stabilized after the holyday weeks once at the so-called new normal. We find that this new normal emphasizes the pre-lockdown inequalities in mobility between low- and high-income population, increasing the inequality up to a 47%. These results show the relevance of devising measures that could account for potential collateral inequalities.
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author Hernando, Alberto
Mateo, David
Barrios, Ignacio
Plastino, Ángel Luis
author_facet Hernando, Alberto
Mateo, David
Barrios, Ignacio
Plastino, Ángel Luis
author_sort Hernando, Alberto
title Social inequalities in human mobility during the Spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020
title_short Social inequalities in human mobility during the Spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020
title_full Social inequalities in human mobility during the Spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020
title_fullStr Social inequalities in human mobility during the Spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020
title_full_unstemmed Social inequalities in human mobility during the Spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020
title_sort social inequalities in human mobility during the spanish lockdown and post-lockdown in the covid-19 pandemic of 2020
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url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/124763
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