abstract: 'Income improvement is the primary expectation when deciding to migrate.

  However, due to the limited resources and urban facilities, informal

  sector work leads to an increasing income gap with local workers,

  migrant workers in big cities are considered the most vulnerable

  population. When there is no social policy, migrants are even more

  susceptible to the negative impacts of COVID-19. To identify necessary

  bases for short-term and long-term intervention to attract workers to

  return and quickly adapt to the urban life in the economic recovery

  process, the study surveyed to clarify the assessment of COVID-19

  support packages from which the most beneficial are electricity and

  water exemption and reduction, food support, loan interest reduction,

  and loan for salary payment. The study also used survey results from two

  pandemic centers in the southern region to estimate factors and impacts

  on the workers'' income in terms of integration, the results show that

  the major significant factors are education, housing, work sector,

  self-employment, and social insurance. We take notices to enhance

  workers'' integration to help retain workers by short-term measurements

  from the support package''s assessments and long-term measurements from

  the income and integration estimates to attract workers after the

  pandemic.'
affiliation: 'Nguyen, TTT (Corresponding Author), Univ Econ \& Law, Fac Econ, Dept
  Publ Econ \& Management, Publ Policy, Hochiminh City 700000, Vietnam.

  Nguyen, Nga Hong, Univ Econ \& Law, Fac Econ, Dept Econ, Econ \& Construct Org,
  Hochiminh City 700000, Vietnam.

  Nguyen, Trang Thi Thu, Univ Econ \& Law, Fac Econ, Dept Publ Econ \& Management,
  Publ Policy, Hochiminh City 700000, Vietnam.'
article-number: '94'
author: Nguyen, Nga Hong and Nguyen, Trang Thi Thu
author-email: 'nganh@uel.edu.vn

  trangntt@uel.edu.vn'
author_list:
- family: Nguyen
  given: Nga Hong
- family: Nguyen
  given: Trang Thi Thu
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3390/economies10040094
eissn: 2227-7099
files: []
journal: ECONOMIES
keywords: 'income; integration; package; migrants; workers; equity; vulnerability;

  covid'
keywords-plus: 'IMMIGRATION; REDISTRIBUTION; ACCULTURATION; ASSIMILATION; INEQUALITY;

  MIGRATION; ECONOMICS; EARNINGS; GROWTH; IMPACT'
language: English
month: APR
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '74'
orcid-numbers: Nguyen, Trang Thi Thu/0000-0002-6697-5068
papis_id: 0792ce325881ec4b42a6bdae1e96fae2
ref: Nguyen2022assuringsocial
times-cited: '1'
title: Assuring Social Equity and Improving Income from an Assessment of Government's
  Supports in a Pandemic and Migrant Workers' Integration in Vietnam
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000787513400001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '10'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2022'