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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...
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In this article I set out to present the situation in terms of unemployment rate, the number of registered unemployed … but also the share of unemployed nationwide in the period 2020-2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate … state with a technical unemployment benefit, which led to the highest unemployment rate in the last two years, resulting in …
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Nutritious eating habits contribute to a stronger immune system necessary for prevention and easier recovery from illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to negatively affect food security of families. This research explores the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic can change the reservation wage because of changes in people’s preferences due to the risk of infection, the accelerating trend of remote work, and the worsened household economy. Using data from Japan on job seekers’ desired wages, we found that the upward trend of...
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This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search effort of employed as well as unemployed...
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In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved over most of the year 2020. Relying primarily on microdata from the CPS and state-level data on virus caseloads, mortality, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of...
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support measures, in the short term, the Romanian labour market is facing the unemployment rate increase, at least in 2020, as …
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This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of … countries suggest that following the initial shock at the start of the pandemic, employment rates partially recovered between …
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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/10012207117
The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it … results show that while face-to-face services were undoubtedly hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, the sectoral shock was less … suggest that targeted measures to mitigate the persistent effects of the employment shock should take priority during the …
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