Containment measures are crucial to halt the spread of the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic but entail large short-term economic …

Despite its negative effects, the COVID-19 pandemic has also accelerated Latin America's digitalization. The rapid … increase in connectivity and digital services was helpful in mitigating the pandemic's negative impact on the labor markets …

The Beveridge curve shifted substantially higher in the United States following the start of the COVID pandemic. In … 2022, vacancies reached record highs across all sectors while unemployment fell to pre-pandemic lows. At the same time, the … pandemic has resulted in severe labor shortages, and we estimate that the labor force was approximately 2 million below trend …

consumer prices through input-output tables. Pass-through increased during the COVID-19 pandemic recovery, temporarily in goods …

Could temporary tax cuts stimulate consumer spending? Sector-specific measures to the COVID-19 pandemic provides a … standard value-added tax (VAT) rate from 21 percent to 9 percent on restaurants and catering services during the pandemic in a …

poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to … significant role in mitigating the increase in poverty during the pandemic …

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … potential scarring effect of the pandemic, policies should be deployed to reduce rapidly the number of children affected by …

We estimate the role of (pre-Ukraine war) supply disruptions in constraining the Covid-19 pandemic recovery, for …

The COVID-19 pandemic had posed a dramatic impact on labor markets across Europe. Forceful fiscal responses have … those schemes in stabilizing household income during the pandemic across European countries. Empirical evidence shows that … market income shocks-almost doubling the extent of the automatic stabilization of the pre-pandemic tax and benefit systems …