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Technological advance, social fragmentation and welfare
Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
-seeking activities generate negative preference externalities, technological advance may lead to a particular type of "decoupling" of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418627
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Pandemic depression : COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187868
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The economic impacts of direct natural disaster exposure
Johar, Meliyanni; Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; … - 2020
find that around 20% of the population have low resilience to financial shocks, and for these individuals we find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270890
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414371
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Resilience-thinking training for college students : evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Secor, Alan; Balanzó, Rafael de - 2023
resilience of students from a large broad-access Hispanic Serving Institution and commuter urban college. In a 90-minute workshop … them. We find that the intervention increased by 5 percent of a standard deviation the short-run resilience of the average … student. Importantly, the intention-to-treat effects were larger for students with lower levels of baseline resilience. The …
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