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Evaluation of language training programs in Luxembourg using principal stratification
Bia, Michela; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Mercatanti, Andrea - 2018
In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several … countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a … language training program on the re-employment probability and hourly wages of the unemployed simultaneously, using highquality …
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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to emotional well-being of individuals. With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults’ vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging...
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Collective emotions and macro-level shocks : COVID-19 vs the Ukrainian war
Rossouw, Stephanié; Greyling, Talita - 2022
related to lockdowns (COVID-19) and the Ukrainian war for ten countries. Applying Natural Language Processing, we obtain these … tweets underlying emotion scores and derive daily time series data per emotion. We compare the different emotional time … whether it is a health or a war shock. Specifically, we find fear is the predominant emotion before the shocks, and anger …
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Vaccination uptake, happiness and emotions : using a supervised machine learning approach
Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2024
disease. As the coronavirus mutated, vaccination estimates for achieving herd immunity went from 70% to 90%. In this study, we …
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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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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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A literature review of the economics of COVID-19
Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David M.; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020 - This version: July 5, 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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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: 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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Perturbed nuptiality, delayed fertility : childbirth effects of Covid19
Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid - 2021
An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct fertility effects of peo- ple getting the virus may be minor, the impact of delayed marriages due to the first preventive lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March...
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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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