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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2021
industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization â … of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health : Disentangling Crucial Channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
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Income Tax Policy in Europe between Two Crises : From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Myck, Michal; Trzciński, Kajetan - 2022
We examine the revenue and redistributive effects of tax policy reforms in twelve European countries over the decade between the financial crisis and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, setting them against the implications of a hypothetical system reflecting the extent of fiscal drag...
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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
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The Early Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives and Migrants in the UK
Morando, Greta - 2022
It has been found that migrants and natives are affected differently by fluctuations in the business cycle. This paper analyses whether this is the case when considering the most recent economic downturn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. By using UK data, it finds that unemployment has...
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COVID-19 Severity : A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths
Millimet, Daniel; Parmeter, Christopher - 2021
Accurate counts of cases and deaths are critical for devising an optimal pandemic response. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, so too has the recognition that cases and deaths have been underreported, perhaps vastly so. Here, we present an econometric strategy to estimate the true...
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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …
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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020
This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...
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Interventions with Positive Side-Effects : Covid-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe
Kaiser, Micha; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2021
To assess the efficacy of Covid-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on infectious disease containment in Europe, we first use weekly 2015-20 data on the spread of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to compare the 2019-20 season of these diseases with the previous five....
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Determinants of the Community Mobility During the COVID-19 Epidemic : The Role of Government Regulations and Information
Mendolia, Silvia; Stavrunova, Olena; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2021
the world. The main goal of the analysis is to empirically separate voluntary reductions in mobility driven by the …
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