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Economic policy response to the pandemic : from COVID-19 emergency to economic democracy

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Spencer, David A. - 2020

This review of UK economic policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis identifies serious problems with existing measures. We describe alternative policies which could alleviate hardship, protect business from destruction in the growing depression, facilitate recovery with full employment in a Green...

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Maneuvering through the crisis : labor market and social policies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Rinne, Ulf - 2020

a longerterm crisis with broad economic impacts on a global scale. Furthermore, next to providing liquidity support to …

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COVID-19 and income inequality : evidence from monthly population registers

Angelov, Nikolay; Waldenström, Daniel - 2021

We measure the distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using newly released population register data in Sweden. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals while middle- and high-income earners were almost...

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Italy between a disaster and a new development strategy

Pastore, Francesco - 2020

Italy has probably been one of the first ships to cross the storm of the pandemic, soon after Wuhan in China, and one of the worst performers with a GDP fall of -10% in 2020. The reason is that the pandemic recession has drawn on old structural problems, which already before the pandemic made...

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Immigrant key workers : their contribution to Europe's COVID-19 response

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

Union during the COVID-19 epidemic. We quantify the prevalence of migrant workers in the so called "key professions" that …

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Reforming tax and welfare : social justice and recovery after the pandemic

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2020

Capital income subsidies, and reliance on indirect consumption taxes have created an increasingly regressive overall tax system in the UK, US and elsewhere, with proportionately much greater impact on the poor than on the rich, and welfare cuts under ten years of austerity have had the largest...

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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health and Well-being of Vulnerable People in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022

Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...

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The socio-economics of pandemics policy

Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, with the aid of two powerful tools that …In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world have provided a massive fiscal and monetary stimulus … selfish individuals and more on the mobilization of people's prosocial motives. Finally, to encourage people around the world …

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Income support for non-covered workers during COVID-19 : a review of policy responses

Marx, Paul; Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022

in sustainable social protection systems, including infrastructures, in the global South will be for the future. …

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Pregnancy during the pandemic

Schwandt, Hannes - 2020

Worries about the impact of COVID-19 on pregnant mothers and their offspring are wide-spread. As a comparison, the Spanish Flu pandemic had devastating health impacts on pregnant mothers and in-utero exposure to influenza is known to have negative short- and long-term consequences for children....

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