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Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19 : Lessons from the Great Recession

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Holtz-Eakin, Doug - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...

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Income Tax Policy in Europe between Two Crises : From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Myck, Michał; Trzciński, Kajetan - 2022

We examine the revenue and redistributive effects of tax policy reforms in twelve European countries over the decade between the financial crisis and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, setting them against the implications of a hypothetical system reflecting the extent of fiscal drag...

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This Time it's Different : The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession

Alon, Titan - 2020

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue...

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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

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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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 longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...

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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 learning and developmental losses from pre-primary program closures due to COVID-19 may be unprecedented. These disruptions early in life can be long-lasting. Although there is evidence about the effects of school closures on older children, there is currently no evidence on such losses for...

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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 against recent university graduates' successful...

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From Epidemic to Pandemic : Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on High School Program Choices in Sweden

Aalto, Aino-Maija; Müller, Dagmar; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2022

We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a preliminary round in which applicants initially rank programs in order of preference and a final...

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Scarring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Italian Labour Market

Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic raised the share of inactive individuals in 2020 in Italy, mostly at the expense of permanent and fix-term employment. We document sizable asymmetric effects across categories of individuals, defined on the basis of gender, age and geographical area. In particular, the...

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