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Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
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The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … with reduced business risks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for both small and medium enterprises. The study indicates that …
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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 created based on skills descriptors that categorise jobs by their level of … labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22% of the …
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has evolved along with the most prominent risk factors associated with the pandemic. Overall, mental health decreased …Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic … comparable to those in November 2019. We show that perceived risk of infection, labor market uncertainty, and emotional …
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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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This paper studies the dynamics of human mobility during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries around … information about the location-specific pandemic trends from the effects of the government-imposed social distancing mandates … as a proxy for the information about the spread of the pandemic available to the population.A detailed index of …
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between the financial crisis and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, setting them against the implications of a …
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phases, we find no long-term effects on employees exposed to early risk of job loss. For those employed at the onset of the … pandemic, both the level and the socioeconomic composition of employment quickly returned to normal. In contrast, we find …
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pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data …
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analyses whether this is the case when considering the most recent economic downturn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. By … migrants have also been more likely to experience a decrease in pay during the pandemic. Natives, EU workers, and non … negative effects of the pandemic on migrants labour market outcomes …
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