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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic recession on less educated women's human capital : some projections

Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...

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The learning crisis : three years after COVID-19

Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Jakubowski, Maciej; Kennedy, Alec; … - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to education, with school closures affecting over one billion children. These closures, aimed at reducing virus transmission, resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in mathematics and science. Using data from TIMSS 2023, which...

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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020

We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...

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The returns to education over time and the effect of COVID-19

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2024

This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the returns to education in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey 2011-2022, the analysis reveals that, after a period of decline, returns to education increased significantly because of COVID, particularly...

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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19

Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020

document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment …

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Pandemic layoffs and the role of stay-at-home orders

Kudlyak, Marianna; Wolcott, Erin L. - 2024

We compile a novel high-frequency, detailed geographic dataset on mass layoffs from U.S. state labor departments. Using recent advances in difference-in-difference estimation with staggered treatment, we find that locally-mandated stay-at-home orders issued March 16–22, 2020 triggered mass...

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COVID-19, stay-at-home orders and employment : evidence from CPS data

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Wright, Taylor - 2020

employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600- 311,000, and …

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The short-term economic consequences of COVID-19 : exposure to disease, remote work and government response

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Wright, Taylor - 2020

increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation and had no significant impacts on wages …

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EU jobs at highest risk of COVID-19 social distancing: will the pandemic exacerbate labour market divide?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Branka, Jiri - 2020

This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...

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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments

Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...

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