development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …) lower barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of DID on inequality is also moot. There is however a modest …

shock. Firm‐specific shocks are important for wages given the variation in within‐firm productivity and the patterns of …

as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as … well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock in terms of job loss rates. The differential impacts were … hypothesize that income inequality likely has increased due to the pandemic. Policies aiming at reducing inequality in the labor …

offset furlough-induced income reductions. This creates wealth inequality but lowers the probability a furloughed worker …

The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global … prices, unemployment rates, and interest rates in nine countries that took distinctive approaches in tackling the pandemic …, where we introduce lockdowns as shocks to unemployment. Based on impulse response functions, we find that in most countries …