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A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?
Christl, Michael - 2019
The Austrian Beveridge curve shifted in 2014, leading to ongoing academic discussions about the reasons behind this shift. While some have argued that the shift was caused by a supply shock due to labour market liberalization, others have stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new...
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Decomposing poverty in hard times : Greece 2007-2016
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2020
The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all … population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the … effect of the crisis on the population shares, the mean incomes and the level of poverty of various population groups using …
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Life dissatisfaction and anxiety in COVID-19 pandemic
Pedraza, Pablo de; Guzi, Martin; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2020
The rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, prolonged lockdowns, substantial restrictions on public life and an economic downturn negatively affect personal well-being. In this paper, we explore COVID- 19-related determinants of life dissatisfaction and feelings of anxiety using data...
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Lost wages : the COVID-19 cost of school closures
Psacharopoulos, George; Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, … - 2020
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reported that 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the...
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Happiness-lost : did governments make the rightdecisions to combat Covid-19?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
lockdown regulations, while amid an economic crisis. We analyse the impact of both Covid-19 and the lockdown on happiness. We …
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A tale of three countries : how did Covid-19 lockdown impact happiness?
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have implemented lockdown regulations to curb the spread of the virus. Though lockdowns do minimise the physical damage of the virus, there may be substantial damage to population well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses...
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Markov switching models for happiness during apandemic : the New-Zealand experience
Rossouw, Stephanie; Greyling, Talita; Adhikari, Tamanna; … - 2020
This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and provides valuable information about its future evolution....
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The effect of repeated lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic on UK mental health outcomes
Lindley, Joanne; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2021
This paper assesses the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the mental health of individuals in the UK, starting from the early restrictions in April 2020, and covering three subsequent lockdowns, up until March 2021. It also considers three aspects of mental health; that is 'anxiety and...
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Economic geography of contagion : a study on Covid-19 outbreak in India
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2022
We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality in which the periphery remains dependent on the core for...
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Key links in network interactions : assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic
Chen, Xi; Qiu, Yun; Shi, Wei; Yu, Pei - 2022
We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...
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