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The Great Canadian Recovery : The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville; Lange, Fabian; … - 2022
The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
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An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Epidemic : The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies
Brotherhood, Luiz - 2020
This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR epidemiological model with individual choices regarding how much time to spend working and consuming outside the house, both of which increase the risk of transmission. Individuals...
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Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2020
Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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Failing to Pull Together : South Africa's Troubled Response to Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed infections continued to grow exponentially, placing the...
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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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Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic : Post-Lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities
Liu, Yanyan; Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2021
How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility...
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Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This … past and present epidemics as well as comparing cross-country variations in their responses to the current public health … emergency, we navigate long-awaited health reforms in areas that help optimize epidemics response and realign incentives of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249128
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Stigma and Misconceptions in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic : A Field Experiment in India
Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2021
A hidden cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is the stigma associated with the disease for those infected and groups that are considered as more likely to be infected. This paper examines whether the provision of accurate and focused information about COVID-19 from a reliable source can reduce...
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Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic : Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?
Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …
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The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns : Evidence from Ghana
Schotte, Simone; Danquah, Michael; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2021
In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two...
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