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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
World Bank Group - 2020
and youth of primary- and secondary-school age were out of school. And low schooling quality meant many who were in school … turn crisis into opportunity. The first step is to cope successfully with the school closures, by protecting health and … start planning for school reopening. That means preventing dropout, ensuring healthy school conditions, and using new …
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Free compulsory education can mitigate COVID-19 disruptions' adverse effects on child schooling
Dessy, Sylvain Eloi; Gninafon, Horace; Tiberti, Luca; … - In: Economics of education review 97 (2023), pp. 1-17
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Covid-19 shocks to education supply : how 200,000 U.S. households dealt with the sudden shift to distance learning
Bansak, Cynthia; Starr-McCluer, Martha - In: Review of Economics of the Household 19 (2021) 1, pp. 63-90
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The impact of the COVID-19 shock on labour income inequality : evidence from Italy
Carta, Francesca; De Philippis, Marta - 2021
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Cross-region transfers in a monetary union : evidence from the US and some implications
Pennings, Steven - 2020
US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
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Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition : Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19
Ganguli, Ina; Haidar, Jamal; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Stemper, Sam - 2022
We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive increase in online skilling, and demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as...
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Future-proofing adult learning in London, United Kingdom
OECD - 2021
Cities are not only home to around half of the global population but are also at the forefront of the transformation of jobs, skills and labour markets. Furthermore, cities play a leading role in the COVID-19 response, as the pandemic is not only accelerating megatrends such as digitalisation...
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Chutes and ladders? : job opportunities for generation COVID
Barth, Erling; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Schøne, Pål; … - 2021
With a focus on jobs for youth, this paper analyses the development of job postings in Norway during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Jobs for youth are defined by the top 20 3-digit occupations for young workers. Job postings in these occupations took a larger hit...
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Coronavirus and the need for strong government institutions : defeating the pandemic and reviving economies
Esposto, Alexis S. - In: Estudios económicos 37 (2020) 74, pp. 205-217
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The COVID-19 shock : a Bayesian approach
Younes, Oussama Abi; Altuğ, Sumru - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-15
The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global …
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