Germany and Spain. This paper asks whether the changes in the employment relationship due to employment law liberalisation … have altered the positive health effects associated with employment (Goldsmith et al. 1996; Jahoda 1982). Using contract … type information on switching between unemployment and employment we analyse whether transitions to different contracts …

important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard … May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers …