The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … collected from 317 SMEs between April and June 2020, with follow-up data gathered between October and December 2020 in London …

scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the … "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic …

the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small … this trend in the third quarter of 2020.The increase in closures rates in the first two quarters of the pandemic was …

the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July 2020). Based on a caseness measure, the prevalence of psychological … of the pandemic (April 2020) other socioeconomic factors declined in their share of socioeconomic inequality, while age …

first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using nationally …

is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number … month fully capturing early effects from the pandemic. The number of active business owners in the United States plummeted …

the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of counter- measures. Additionally, rich countries did not fare much better … during the pandemic than poor ones. COVID-19 thrived on inequalities and lack of cooperation. In this article, we leverage on … virtuous cycle. Such a society would have been better endowed to cope with COVID-19, and possibly even prevented the pandemic …

School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the …

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push … encouraged additional firm-sponsored training despite pandemic-related restrictions indicating that investments in digital … against the downturn during the pandemic. Firms that made additional investments relied less on short-time work, had more of …

pandemic, both the level and the socioeconomic composition of employment quickly returned to normal. In contrast, we find …