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The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into persistent and transitory components using the observed...
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Can governmental policies mitigate the effects of recessions on unemployment? We study whether the Swiss short …-time work (STW) program reduced unemployment in the 2009-2015 period using quarterly establishment-level panel data linking … several administrative data sources. We compare changes in permanent layoffs into unemployment, hiring from unemployment …
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In this paper we use Norwegian tax data and a novel natural experiment to isolate the impact of job loss risk on saving behavior. We find that a one percentage point increase in job loss risk increases liquid savings by roughly 1.2 - 2.0 percent. Further, we show that employment falls in...
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mainly driven via STW. US unemployment rose at an unprecedented rate, but unlike in previous recessions, it was mostly driven …
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