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German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2022
particular, we investigate how the digitalization level of the self-employed influences the program's effectiveness. Employing …-employed in advanced digitalization stages, who started the digitalization processes already before the crisis. Moreover, taking a … support programs, the digitalization levels of entrepreneurs, and the regional digital infrastructure. The study helps public …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296506
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Age, Death Risk, and the Design of an Exit Strategy: A Guide for Policymakers and for Citizens Who Want to Stay Alive
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
Some commentators argue for a fairly general release from COVID-19 lockdown. That has a troubling flaw. It ignores the fatality risks that will then be faced by citizens in midlife and older. This paper provides information on the strong age-pattern in the risk of death from three countries...
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Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?
Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020
The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269909
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Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-At-Home Orders
Ali, Umair; Herbst, Chris M.; Makridis, Christos A. - 2020
Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) have been implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on the supply of and demand for child care. The child care market may be particularly vulnerable to a SAHO-type...
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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dave, Dhaval M.; Friedson, Andrew I.; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
adoption, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and border SIPO …
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment rate understates employment losses. We focus on the...
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Baby Steps: The Gender Division of Childcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020
The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK families with young children have been doing the...
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