lockdown period and then recovered gradually, showing a "V" shaped pattern. However, by the end of November 2020, about 4.4 per …

We examine the short-term labour market effects of COVID-19 and the associated national lockdown in Australia by … (LFP) by 2.1%, increased unemployment by 1.1% and reduced weekly working hours by 1.1. The national lockdown decreased LFP … increased due to the lockdown. The pandemic and the lockdown increased underemployment and job search efforts significantly. In …

variation between Denmark and Norway on the one hand and Sweden on the other. The former deployed relatively more stringent … lockdowns, the latter did not. Our difference-in-differences models show that stricter lockdown policies are associated with …

adjust daily COVID-19 deaths to match weekly excess mortality. Focusing on Sweden, the only country that has good data and … did not impose a lockdown, we construct counterfactuals for what would have happened if it had imposed a lockdown, using a …, we find that a lockdown would have had sizable effects already after a week. The 3–4 weeks delay highlighted in previous …

domestic violence (DV) and lockdown intensity. We use a novel measure of DV incidents that allows us to make cross … search intensity after lockdown (31%), with larger effects as more people stayed at home (measured with Google Mobility Data …). The peak of the increase in DV appears, on average, 7 weeks after the introduction of the lockdown. While we observe that …