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Work, health and Covid-19: A literature review
Purkayastha, Damini; Vanroelen, Christophe; Bircan, Tuba; … - 2021
With work a key vector of Covid-19 transmission, this report examines why it is critical that occupational health and safety measures take centre stage in mitigation policies. Workers in sectors declared essential by state authorities have been mandated to continue working in physical settings...
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Containment of corona outbreak through lockdown and social distancing among the community during the corona outbreak
G., Sasipriya; P., Muralidharan N.; Priya, Jothi - In: Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government 26 (2020) 2, pp. 1614-1622
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The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - In: Small business economics : an international journal 58 (2022) 4, pp. 1853-1864
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Black Lives Matter protests, social distancing, and COVID-19
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...
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Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? : local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
adoption, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and border SIPO …
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Did California's shelter-in-place order work? : early coronavirus-related public health effects
Friedson, Andrew; McNichols, Drew; Sabia, Joseph J.; … - 2020
Coronavirus has credited the State of California for taking early action to prevent a statewide COVID-19 outbreak, no study has … examined the impact of California's SIPO. Using daily state-level coronavirus data and a synthetic control research design, we … approximately 2 to 4 job losses per coronavirus case averted and 108 to 275 jobs losses per life saved during this short-run post …
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When do shelter-in-place orders fight COVID-19 best? : policy heterogeneity across states and adoption time
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case … benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths …
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Sales losses in the first quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from California administrative data
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2021
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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022
Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...
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#StayAtHome : social distancing policies and mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean
Aromí, Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julian; … - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 47-70
This study examines the impact on human mobility of social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries in March 2020. We use cell phone data and variation across countries regarding the adoption of these policies and their timing to estimate effects on the...
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