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'Holy union?': The sectoral social partners and the Covid-19 crisis in Europe
Degryse, Christophe - 2021
(March 2020 to March 2021), governments have stepped up their emergency measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus …
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Start-up subsidies in East Germany: finally, a policy that works?
Caliendo, Marco - 2008
Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as … effectiveness of two start-up programs in East Germany. Our findings even though partly preliminary - are rather promising, showing …
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Myndighetenes støtteordninger under koronapandemien har dempet kredittrisikoen i foretakene
Hjelseth, Ida Nervik; Solheim, Haakon; Vatne, Bjørn Helge - 2021
After the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, the authorities have introduced a number of measures aimed at the business sector. Support has largely been given to the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic and measures to contain it. A considerable share of banks' loan customers in these sectors have...
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Covid-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland: Evaluation and outlook
Brülhart, Marius; Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias; … - 2020
What determines small businesses' recourse to public support measures during the Covid-19 crisis? We analyse this question using a survey of 1,011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland, linked to information pre-dating the crisis. We find that "objective" measures of...
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Behavioral nudges prevent student dropouts in the pandemic
Lichand, Guilherme; Christen, Julien - 2021
School closures in the context of COVID-19 have been shown to magnify that problem, with at least seven million additional dropouts worldwide in 2020. Despite efforts from governments around the world to mitigate learning gaps by the time in-person classes return, interventions to motivate...
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Domestic and global economic effects of COVID-19 containment measures: How does Russia compare internationally?
Simola, Heli; Solanko, Laura - 2020
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Graphing and measuring Covid's first wave impact on the Bolivian economy
Barja Daza, Gover - 2021
The Bolivian monthly index of economic activity along with ARMA models are used in an attempt to graph and measure the impact of Covid's pandemic on the Bolivian economy. The accumulated difference between the observed and counterfactual values show an overall 12.6% loss of economic activity in...
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Lockdowns and the US unemployment crisis
Dreger, Christian; Gros, Daniel - 2021
We analyse the short-term impact of social distancing measures on the US labour market, using a panel threshold model with high frequency (weekly) data on unemployment across US states. We find that changes in the restrictiveness of mandated social distancing, as measured by the Oxford...
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The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the Covid-19 school closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Kurmann, André; … - 2021
Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...
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Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and opportunities in two Polish industries
Woodward, Richard; Wojnicka, Elçzbieta; Pander, Wojciech - 2012
innovative, and produce more patents, than Polish industry as a whole; their effectiveness in obtaining public assistance is also … above average. The software industry is a young and dynamically growing one everywhere, and Poland is no exception …. Companies in the industry tend to be young and very small. In Poland, they are very focused on the domestic market and play the …
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