- innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …. The COVID-19 pandemic may cause a permanent reduction in innovation and entrepreneurship and may even bring the 4th …

their survival, productivity and competitiveness. -- Industrial development ; industrialization process ; industrial policy …

policies together with the current industrial park strategy and its contemporary impact on employment creation, export …

2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …

particular in hardware and software to enable decentralized communication, management and coordination. The investments … encouraged additional firm-sponsored training despite pandemic-related restrictions indicating that investments in digital … technologies and training are complements. We then demonstrate that the additional investments helped firms to insure workers …

an epidemic. We empirically discipline the model using new U.S. county-level data on health, mobility, employment …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment during the pandemic, just as in high-income countries. A key difference is the role of the sectoral distribution of … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this …

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment …. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the … moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic recession of 2020 was a "shecession" in most countries with larger employment …