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Has the Paycheck Protection Program succeeded?
Hubbard, R. Glenn; Strain, Michael R. - 2020
Enacted March 27, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was the most ambitious and creative fiscal policy response to the Pandemic Recession in the United States. PPP offers forgivable loans - essentially grants - to businesses with 500 or fewer employees that meet certain requirements. In...
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Boosting the economic recovery or closing a green deal in Europe? : or both?
Valla, Natacha - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 55 (2020) 6, pp. 350-352
The recovery measures announced by Europe in parallel with the Green Deal are the perfect opportunity to step up the effort to measure the impact of public expenditure, both in the short and in the long term. To that aim, it is essential to quickly stabilise benchmarks to measure the financial...
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Inflation developments in the euro area since the onset of the pandemic
Nickel, Christiane; Koester, Gerrit; Lis, Eliza Magdalena - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 57 (2022) 2, pp. 69-75
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Convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU at the time of COVID-19
Licchetta, Mirko; Mattozzi, Giovanni - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 58 (2023) 1, pp. 43-51
This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021 …-driven persistent divergence in growth. Regression results provide further evidence of convergence in the euro area and the EU over the … growth, especially in euro area countries. …
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Personnel adjustments during the COVID-19 pandemic: did co-determination make a difference?
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Stegmaier, Jens - 2021
Using a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates whether personnel adjustments during the crisis differed between establishments with and without a works council. Our regression analyses show that the hiring and dismissal rate as...
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The early effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market outcomes of natives and migrants in the UK
Morando, Greta - 2021
It has been found that migrants and natives are affected differently by fluctuations in the business cycle. This paper analyses whether this is the case when considering the most recent economic downturn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. By using UK data, it finds that unemployment has...
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Trust in the time of corona
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just public health and the economy but also...
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Occupational exposure to contagion and the spread of COVID-19 in Europe
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020
Social contacts are a key transmission channel of infectious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route, such as COVID-19. There is no evidence, however, on the question of whether the nature and the organisation of work affect the spread of COVID-19 in different countries. I have...
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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses
Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020
The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health: disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
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