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The COVID-19 crisis and telework: A research survey on experiences, expectations and hopes
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Moens, Eline; Sterkens, … - 2020
, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in telework. Therefore, we examined employee … perceptions of telework on various life and career aspects, distinguishing between typical and extended telework during the COVID … exceptional time of sudden, obligatory and high-intensity telework, our respondents mainly attribute positive characteristics to …
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Who is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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COVID-19, Gender and Labour
Corsi, Marcella; Ilkkaracan, Ipek - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered simultaneously a global health crisis and a global economic crisis which have further deepened existing inequalities along several dimensions, including gender. Increasing gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work has been a primary outcome of the pandemic...
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Did COVID-19 (permanently) raise the demand for "teleworkable" jobs?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Brunetti, Irene; Corvasce, Alessandro - 2024
This study leverages detailed administrative data on firms' job flows and variation across Local Labor Markets (LLMs) in the spread of COVID-19 to investigate shifts in labor demand prompted by the pandemic. To this end, we exploit the large spatial variation in the intensity of the pandemic...
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Inter-country Distancing, Globalization and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Karabulut, Gokhan; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2020
Originating in China, the Coronavirus has reached the world at different speeds and levels of strength. This paper …
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Drawing policy suggestions to fight Covid-19 from hardly reliable data. A machine-learning contribution on lockdowns analysis.
Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2020
Feedback control-based mitigation strategies for COVID-19 are threatened by the time span occurring before an infection is detected in official data. Such a delay also depends on behavioral, technological and procedural issues other than the incubation period. We provide a machine learning...
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The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment rate understates employment losses. We focus on the...
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Identifying policy challenges of COVID-19 in hardly reliable data and judging the success of lockdown measures
Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2020
Identifying structural breaks in the dynamics of COVID-19 contagion is crucial to promptly assess policies and evaluate the effectiveness of lockdown measures. However, official data record infections after a critical and unpredictable delay. Moreover, people react to the health risks of the...
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The intensity of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2020
This paper examines whether the intensity of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative economic consequences from COVID-19 and their...
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A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19
Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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