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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207864
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Public charge in the time of coronavirus
Tepepa, Martha - 2020
The United States government recently passed legislation and stabilization packages to respond to the COVID-19 (i ….e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free virus testing; expanding food assistance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610178
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Reliability of public private partnership projects under assumptions of cash flow volatility
Schöbener, Henning; Schetter, Christoph; Pfnür, Andreas - 2007
on risks associated with the volatility of these cash flows. As we concentrate on so-called government-pays schemes, only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264904
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Escaping the fragility/conflict poverty trap: How the interaction between service delivery, capacity development and institutional transformation drives the process of transition o...
Dia, Mamadou - 2022
The main background and rationale of this research paper is that while donors' scaled-up engagements in Fragility and Conflict-affected States (FCS) during the last decades were a resounding success in terms of official development resources devoted to FCS, the value for money compared to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330852
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Blockchain in Government: Towards an Evaluation Framework
Cagigas, Diego; Clifton, Judith; Diaz-Fuentes, Daniel; … - 2023
The adoption of a new technology such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in government is a complex process with … service, the impact of DLT might be distinct for each of the stakeholders involved (the government, civil servants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014367295
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214176
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Is increasing productivity COVID-19's silver lining?
Blit, Joel - 2020
Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation … technology revolution, fully all of the Canadian decline in routine job employment occurred during the three recessions. A … transportation industries are likely to experience the biggest transformations. In these industries, government attempts to maintain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245091
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This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession
Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; … - 2020
In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270240
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Automation and reallocation: The lasting legacy of COVID-19 in Canada
Blit, Joel - 2020
Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive … resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289689
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Task content and job losses in the Great Lockdown
Petroulakis, Filippos - 2020
I examine the short-term labor market effects of the Great Lockdown in the United States. I analyze job losses by task content (Acemoglu & Autor 2011), and show that they follow underlying trends; jobs with a high non-routine content are especially well-protected, even if they are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304503