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The COVID-19 curtain: can past Communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?
Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates … than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination … Communist regimes would still affect individuals' preferences for Covid-19 vaccination. …
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Can a supranational medicines agency restore trust after vaccine suspensions? : the case of Vaxzevria
Albanese, Andrea; Fallucchi, Francesco; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2021
that the vaccine reinstatement substantially restored vaccination intentions. …
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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 … trust correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. The analysis is based on a new global survey - 'Life with …
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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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COVID-19 employment status impacts on food sector workers
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
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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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Occupational exposure to contagion and the spread of COVID-19 in Europe
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020
help to predict the next waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. …
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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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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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