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The role of COVID-19 in spatial reorganization : some evidence from Germany
Ehlert, Andree; Wedemeier, Jan; Zahlmann, Tabea - 2021
This paper analyzes the role of regional demographic, socioeconomic and political factors on changes in mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides new empirical evidence for the regional differentiation of lockdown measures and indicates a possible reorganization of spatial economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509208
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Covid-19 pandemic, state aid and firm productivity
Bighelli, Tommaso; Lalinsky, Tibor; Vanhala, Juuso - 2022
We study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity by matching firm performance outcomes with corresponding firm-level information on government support. Our cross-country evidence for five EU countries shows that the pandemic led to a significant short-term decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814377
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Has the Paycheck Protection Program succeeded?
Hubbard, R. Glenn; Strain, Michael R. - 2020
Enacted March 27, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was the most ambitious and creative fiscal policy response to the Pandemic Recession in the United States. PPP offers forgivable loans - essentially grants - to businesses with 500 or fewer employees that meet certain requirements. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305361
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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy
Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023
We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures … changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage elasticity of employment was 0.11, implying a small aggregate … employment effect of the program and an estimated fiscal cost per job saved of nearly $200,000 per year. Subsidy payments caused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494038
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COVID-19 Pandemic, State Aid and Firm Productivity
Bighelli, Tommaso; Lalinsky, Tibor; Vanhala, Juuso - 2022
We study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity by matching firm performance outcomes with corresponding firm-level information on government support. Our cross-country evidence for five EU countries shows that the pandemic led to a significant short-term decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308099
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The Employment Effects of a Pandemic Wage Subsidy
Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023
We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures … changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage elasticity of employment was 0.11, implying a small aggregate … employment effect of the program and an estimated fiscal cost per job saved of nearly $200,000 per year. Subsidy payments caused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262746
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The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mobility and traffic accidents : evidence from Louisiana
Barnes, Stephen R.; Beland, Louis-Philippe; Huh, Jason; … - 2020
We use a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mobility and traffic accidents. Based on data from Google Community Mobility reports and Uniform Traffic Crash Report from the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Develop- ment (LaDOTD), we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249916
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The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 pandemic: a regression discontinuity analysis
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Meyerson, Lindsay; Nober, William; … - 2020
Did Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act affect the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? We answer this question using a regression discontinuity design for counties near the borders of states that expanded Medicaid with states that did not. Relevant covariates change continuously across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319274
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"More-than-viral" Eurasian geographies of the covid-19 pandemic
Chan, Kam Wing (ed.); Gentile, Michael (ed.);  … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385132
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COVID-19 and a world of ad hoc geographies
Brunn, Stanley D. (ed.); Gilbreath, Donna (ed.) - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014022200