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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population …-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823866
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Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 South African National Matric Cohort
van Broekhuizen, Hendrik - 2016
This study uses a unique dataset to investigate university access, throughput, and dropout for the 2008 South African national matric cohort. The findings show that university access in South Africa is limited, even among learners who perform relatively well in matric. In addition, those who do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978956
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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317198
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833236
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Covid-19 Lockdowns and Decline in Traffic Related Deaths and Injuries
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2020
This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833237
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833250
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Firm-Level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
Buchheim, Lukas - 2020
This paper studies the determinants of firms' business outlook and managerial mitigation strategies in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis using a representative panel of German firms. We first demonstrate that the crisis amplifies pre-crisis weaknesses: Firms that appear relatively weak before the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833870
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Social Stability Challenged : Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses
Perugini, Cristiano - 2020
inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries.Such a cumulative process shapes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833873
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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the scope and direction of search change. Job seekers respond to the shock by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833886