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Assessing vulnerability of informal floating workers in Bangladesh before and during COVID-19 pandemic : a multi-method analysis
Alam, Shafiqul; Adnan, Ziaul Haq; Baten, Mohammed Abdul; … - In: Benchmarking : an international journal 29 (2022) 5, pp. 1677-1702
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Working hard for the ones you love and care for under Covid-19 physical distancing
Vermeerbergen, Lander; Pulignano, Valeria; Domecka, Markieta - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 35 (2021) 6, pp. 1144-1154
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Working conditions and protective measures in multinational companies during the pandemic : the case of Inditex
Karadoğan, Emirali - In: SEER : journal for labour and social affairs in Eastern … 24 (2021) 1, pp. 71-92
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417516
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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
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Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint
Miclo, Laurent; Spiro, Daniel; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2020
during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained while suppression is costly (e.g., limiting … suppression measures are continuously taken to hold down the spread throughout the epidemic, is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal … suppression is discountinuous. The epidemic should be left unregulated in a first phase and when the ICU constraint is approaching …
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Firm behavior during an epidemic
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2020
We derive a model in which firms operate in an epidemic environment and internalize infections among their employees in … the workplace. The model is calibrated to fit the properties of the Covid-19 epidemic. We show that firms have incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258622
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Firm behavior during an epidemic
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2020
We derive a model in which firms operate in an epidemic environment and internalize infections among their employees in … the workplace. The model is calibrated to fit the properties of the Covid-19 epidemic. We show that firms have incentives to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262217
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Optimally controlling an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We propose a flexible model of infectious dynamics with a single endogenous state variable and economic choices. We characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically is followed by policies to stimulate activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388160
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The causes and consequences of the 1918 influenza in South Africa
De Kadt, Daniel; Fourie, Johan; Greyling, Jan; Murard, Elie - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388241
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Internal migration and the spread of Covid-19
Valsecchi, Michele; Durante, Ruben - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494249