the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small … this trend in the third quarter of 2020. The increase in closures rates in the first two quarters of the pandemic was …

This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for … the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods before and after the start of the pandemic … and apply difference-in-differences type methods. We find that, among rural young teachers, the pandemic has caused higher …

is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number … month fully capturing early effects from the pandemic. The number of active business owners in the United States plummeted …

first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using nationally …

The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … collected from 317 SMEs between April and June 2020, with follow-up data gathered between October and December 2020 in London …

scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the … "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic …

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are … particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export … pandemic is to have closed and shrunk export opportunities globally. Despite this we show that there are still significant …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of research using private-sector datasets to measure business dynamics … to study the effects of the pandemic. We match the Homebase establishment records with information on business activity … data to study whether small service-sector businesses have been hit harder by the pandemic than larger firms, and the …

We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation …