adjustments. Unemployment responses vary widely across countries. Unemployment is particularly responsive to health shocks in the … U.S. and Spain, while unemployment fluctuations are attenuated almost everywhere else. …

coreperiphery structure induce greater degree of mobility which in turn ends up at a higher infection rate than the more … services are near normal. Using mobility data, we provide direct evidence in support of our proposed mechanism; that the … positive relationship between regional inequality and Covid-19 infection is driven by mobility. Our findings imply that policy …

Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce mobility in order to prevent the diffusion … of Covid-19. On March 9, 26 out of 111 provinces were subject to severe limitations on individual mobility between … individual mobility in Italy. By using a spatial discontinuity approach, we show that these measures were effective in that they …

Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a …