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The finance-dominated accumulation regime & the future of work in the post-COVID world

Gouzoulis, Giorgos; Stockhammer, Engelbert - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between financialisation and the future of work in the post-COVID era. It combines … financialisation. It will discuss these for the periods before and after the financial crisis and analyse the impact of COVID on labour … which induced the management of non-financial corporations to reduce labour costs. Yet, financialisation is a complex …

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EU-induced financialisation and its impact on the Greek wage share, 1999-2021

Gouzoulis, Giorgos; Iliopoulos, Panagiotis; Galanis, Giorgos - 2022

financialisation of its economy, which has been particularly influential for households since it led to the rapid rise of household … financialisation is a key driver of wage bargaining outcomes, we demonstrate that the relative size of the FIRE sectors and the …

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Is Covid-19 "the great leveler"? : the critical role of social identity in lockdown-induced job losses

Deshpande, Ashwini; Ramachandran, Rajesh - 2020

Using nationally representative panel data for 21,799 individuals between May 2018 and April 2020, this paper investigates whether the Covid-19 pandemic was indeed a "Great Leveler" in the sense that it imposed similar and equivalent labour market shocks on different caste groups. We find that...

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Economic geography of contagion : a study on Covid-19 outbreak in India

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2022

We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality in which the periphery remains dependent on the core for...

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Key links in network interactions : assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic

Chen, Xi; Qiu, Yun; Shi, Wei; Yu, Pei - 2022

We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...

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The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown : first order effects on gender gaps in employment and domestic time use in India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)'s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining...

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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - 2021

This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...

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COVID-19, working from home and the potential reverse brain drain

Bakalova, Irina; Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has ledto a substantial increase in the prevalence of working from home among white-collar occupations. This can have important implications for the future of the workplace and quality of life. We discussan additional implication,which we label reverse brain drain:the...

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Markov switching models for happiness during apandemic : the New-Zealand experience

Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna; … - 2020

This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and provides valuable information about its future evolution....

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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities

Murat, Marina; Bonacini, Luca - 2020

School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...

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