example. Results show that: 1) The COVID-19 disaster leads to a larger increase in unemployment, work absence, and layoff for … workers’ labor market outcomes (i.e., unemployment, work absence, and lay off). Furthermore, according to the prior literature … on disaster management, disaster-induced labor market disruptions tend to affect female workers more because they are …

-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … unemployment, but not in terms of wages, compared to males. Policymakers may consider the importance of implementing diverse …

impact of COVID-19. A costly disaster series is constructed over the sample 1980:1-2020:04 and the dynamic impact of a … disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude …