months of the crisis, SMEs as the backbone of Europe’s real economy benefited from large and mainly indiscriminate aid …

Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the …

-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending … substantially reduced innovation expenditure not only in the first year of the pandemic (2020) but also in the two subsequent years …, indicating ’Long–Covid’ effects on innovation. In 2020, innovation expenditure fell by 4.7 % due to the pandemic. In 2022 …

mothers. Hourly wages, however, increase with WfH take-up among fathers, but not among mothers unless they change employer … selection into paid employment due to changes in unobserved characteristics or preferences does not affect the magnitude of the …