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The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021

We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to compare measures of socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July...

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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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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life as a common metric. We estimate that almost 20 million...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK: an update

Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021

This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021.

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Earnings losses and the role of the welfare state during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Sweden

Adermon, Adrian; Laun, Lisa; Lind, Patrik; Olsson, Martin; … - 2022

Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...

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The unequal impact of the COVID pandemic : theory and evidence on health and economic outcomes for different income groups

Aubert, Cécile; Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …

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Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from five European countries

Lepinteur, Anthony; Rebechi, Alessio; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2024

We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then...

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Optimal unemployment benefits in the pandemic

Mitman, Kurt; Rabinovich, Stanislav - 2020

How should unemployment benefits vary in response to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic? We answer this question by computing the optimal unemployment insurance response to the COVID-induced recession.We compare the optimal policy to the provisions under the CARES Act-which...

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Should contact bans be lifted in Germany? : a quantitative prediction of its effects

Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020

Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...

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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...

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