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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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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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Citizens' opinions of and experiences with government responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Viet Nam
Huyen Thanh Do; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Long Thanh Nguyen; … - 2022
This study explores the impact of COVID-19 and how Vietnamese citizens perceived and experienced measures adopted by central and local governments to contain the CVODI-19 pandemic in 2021. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic had a more severe impact in 2021 than in 2020. Citizens showed great...
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China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19 : evidence from an online job board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Chinese labor market demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The analyses reveal that the lockdown policy …
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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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The effects of COVID-19 on employment, labour markets and gender equality in Central America
Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
possible. The main focus of the study was the initial impact on labour markets. The analysis was based on World Bank enterprise … use of enterprise data to analyse labour market issues has some limitations but also many strengths. The data is useful … females in employment and firm expectations of survival). A limitation of such analysis with any enterprise level is …
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