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To fight the spread of COVID-19, many countries implemented unprecedented social distancing policies. This is the first paper that uses an event-study approach to examine the effects of the German social distancing policies on (a) individual behavior and (b) the spread of the epidemic. Combining...
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To fight the spread of COVID-19, many countries implemented unprecedented social distancing policies. This is the first paper that uses an event-study approach to examine the effects of the German social distancing policies on (a) individual behavior and (b) the spread of the epidemic. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308488
In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the impact of stringent lockdown policies on labour market outcomes at …-in-differences design, we find that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the … control districts had narrowed four months after the lockdown was lifted, we detect a persistent nationwide impact on labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428156
In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force...
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the impacts from the government-enforced lockdown and higher virus case numbers did not reinforce this decline. This …
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In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221891
US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy … associated with social distancing. We find that lockdown measures are effective in alleviating disease severity, but yield …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587672
In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts … narrowed four months after the lockdown was lifted, we detect a persistent nationwide decline in both earnings and employment …
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lockdown period and then recovered gradually, showing a "V" shaped pattern. However, by the end of November 2020, about 4.4 per …
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The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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