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Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake : New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022
exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We … pandemic was of a similar magnitude as that of the GFC, and the spatial pattern was also quite similar. We link the social …
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The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic : Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups
Aubert, Cecile; Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022
This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …
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Pandemic Depression : Covid-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082321
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Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083692
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Dual Circulation and Population Mobility During the Pandemic in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Tran, Trang; Yu, Lamont - 2022
Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy … and data from this industry helps serve as an objective proxy for domestic economic activity during the pandemic. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083708
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Working from Home During a Pandemic - A Discrete Choice Experiment in Poland
Lewandowski, Piotr; Lipowska, Katarzyna; Smoter, Mateusz - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed working from home from a rarity to a widely adopted job amenity. We study workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083723
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Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-Primary Program Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abufhele, Alejandra; Bravo, David; López Bóo, Florencia; … - 2022
the actual impact of pandemic-related closures on child development, in this case for a sample of young children in Chile … areas. In particular, nine months after the start of the pandemic, we find a loss in language development of 0.25 SDs …
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Gendered Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Transitioning from University to Labor Market : Evidence from Turkey
Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic led to unprecedented disruptions in the labor market. Turkey implemented a worker dismissal ban … to mitigate the adverse effects, effective from April 2020 to June 2021. The pandemic and unveiled measures put pressure … Covid-19 pandemic and related employment protection policies on the labor market outcomes of recent university graduates. We …
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The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Job Loss Induced Mental Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented level of job losses in the U.S., where a job loss is also associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083797
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Who is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples During the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period … did more household production, suggesting they shared the increased work burden resulting from the pandemic more equally …
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