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Higher inequality in Latin America : a collateral effect of the pandemic

Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022

. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …

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International remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean amid the Covid-19 crisis : a push for digitalization?

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Parrado, Eric - 2021

Remittances constitute a significant safety net for millions of households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC … of remittances. The recovery of remittances was accompanied by a modest and temporary increase in the interest in digital …

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Do remittances help smooth consumption during health shocks? : evidence from Jamaica

Beuermann, Diether W.; Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo - 2014

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

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Possible economic impacts of falling oil prices, the pandemic, and the looming global recession onto overseas Filipinos and their remittances

Ang, Alvin P.; Opiniano, Jeremaiah M. - 2020

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The gender-remittances nexus and the impact of COVID-19

Van den bosch, Catherine; Mavrotas, George - 2022

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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics : an economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond

Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023

This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic...

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Working from home and mental well-being in the EU at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic : a gendered look at key mediators

Leitner, Sandra M. - 2024

This paper analyses the relationship between working from home (WFH) and mental well-being at different stages during the first two critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic, when governments repeatedly imposed lockdowns and enacted WFH mandates to contain the spread of the virus. Using data from...

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Being on the frontline? : immigrant workers in Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

We provide a first timely assessment of the pandemic crisis impact on the labour market prospects of immigrant workers in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We characterize migrants' occupations along four dimensions related to the role of workers'...

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The unequal inequality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2021

GDP contractions are typically associated with within-country income inequality increases. While official income inequality data for 2020 will not be available for about two years, the already available employment data for 2020 shows that the difference between highly-educated and low-educated...

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Improving early childhood development outcomes in times of COVID-19 : experimental evidence on parental networks and SMS messages

Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; Namen, Olga; … - 2022

This paper describes a policy experiment implemented in Costa Rica to increase learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of...

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