With work a key vector of Covid-19 transmission, this report examines why it is critical that occupational health and safety measures take centre stage in mitigation policies. Workers in sectors declared essential by state authorities have been mandated to continue working in physical settings...

In England, school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a sudden but relatively long-lasting shock to children's education. During the first lockdown, schools were closed to all but the most vulnerable children and those with key worker parents from 23 March to the end of May;...

Escape variants can cause new waves of COVID-19 outbreaks and put vaccination strategies at risk. To prevent or delay the global spread of these waves, virus mobility needs to be minimised through screening and testing strategies, which should also cover vaccinated people. The costs of these...

In dieser ZEW-Kurzanalyse analysieren die Autoren/-innen die Webseiten von circa 1,1 Millionen deutschen Unternehmen zwei Mal wöchentlich auf die Nennung des Wortes "Corona" und entsprechender Synonyme. Anschließend werden die identifizierten Textstellen mittels KI-Textanalysemodellen...

Fixed Capital has a major role in economic growth literature and on the estimation of potential output using a production function - which is essential to design macroeconomic policy. One of the main contributions of this work, differently from the previous works, is to estimate the capital...