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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws … counselling services, (2) cross-sectional survey data collected during the first wave of the pandemic, and (3) a qualitative … online survey with counsellors and domestic violence experts. The number of violence-related requests at helplines increased …
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Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...
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Measures to contain the Corona virus (COVID-19) may pay off in terms of slowing down proliferation. The proliferation trend in France and Germany now exceeds the one in Italy, South Korea and Japan. At the same time, the containment measures seem more intense in Italy, South Korea and Japan than...
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Measures to contain the Corona virus (COVID-19) may pay off in terms of slowing down proliferation. The proliferation trend in France and Germany now exceeds the one in Italy, South Korea and Japan. At the same time, the containment measures seem more intense in Italy, South Korea and Japan than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012173287
fraction of the population is concerned that they or their family members and friends may get infected with the coronavirus … decrease in household income, and worries about financial troubles. Regressing these two factors on several socio …
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I examine the financial fragility of German households during the second wave of COVID-19 infections in the winter of 2020/21 by analyzing the households’ ability to come up with EUR 2,000 within one month. About one in three households reports being unable to cover an unexpected expense of...
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How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but … they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here …
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widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We consider prepandemic division …
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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the medium-term dynamics of …
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The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected not only incumbent firms, but also the emergence of start-ups. This paper … investigates and analyzes the pandemic's effect on new business formation, as well as business exits and insolvencies, in Germany …. We find that the overall level of business registrations slightly decreased during the first year of the pandemic, but …
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