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Italy between a disaster and a new development strategy
Pastore, Francesco - 2020
Italy has probably been one of the first ships to cross the storm of the pandemic, soon after Wuhan in China, and one … Europe in the last 20 years. The evils of Italy are well known. It is the second biggest manufacturer in Europe, but also … among the most traditional ones. Made in Italy, despite moving up in terms of quality and skilled content, still remains the …
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The labour market impact of COVID-19: early evidence for a sample of enterprises from Southern Europe
Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. The evidence and the analysis are provided at a time when the pandemic is still in progress. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508054
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The productivity puzzle : a critical assessment and an outlook on the COVID-19 crisis
Roth, Felix - 2021
This paper assesses the productivity puzzle critically and gives an outlook on the COVID-19 crisis. It offers two main conclusions. First, it posits that a large fraction of the productivity puzzle can be solved by incorporating intangible capital into the asset boundary of the national...
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The Effects of COVID-19 on Employment, Labour Markets and Gender Equality in Central America
Webster, Allan; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries - El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the pandemic nor its economic consequences had fully run their course. It is not, therefore, a definitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545971
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The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19: Early Evidence for a Sample of Enterprises from Southern Europe
Webster, Allan; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. The evidence and the analysis are provided at a time when the pandemic is still in progress. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597415
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The Effects of COVID-19 on Employment, Labour Markets and Gender Equality in Central America
Webster, Allan; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the pandemic nor its economic consequences had fully run their course. It is not, therefore, a definitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597627
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The effects of COVID-19 on employment, labour markets and gender equality in Central America
Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries - El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the pandemic nor its economic consequences had fully run their course. It is not, therefore, a definitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548113
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The effects of COVID-19 on employment, labour markets and gender equality in Central America
Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the pandemic nor its economic consequences had fully run their course. It is not, therefore, a definitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581544
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Entrepreneurship and digitalisation in EU : twinning insights through a panel threshold regression
Nicolescu, Ana-Cristina; Lobonț, Oana-Ramona; Vătavu, … - In: Journal of business economics and management 25 (2024) 2, pp. 315-336
The study methodologically employs, in a novel perspective, the panel threshold analysis, considering the time frame 2006-2020, to capture the relationship between new business density rate, as a proxy for entrepreneurship, and individuals' digital inclusion, as a proxy for digitalisation in EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540666
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Short-term exit from pandemic restrictions : did European countries' speed converge?
Brosio, Giorgio; Pelosi, Riccardo; Zanola, Roberto - In: European journal of comparative economics 19 (2022) 2, pp. 145-159
Concurrently with the end of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, European democracies have progressively relaxed the restrictions on social mobility following the decrease in disease indexes. Did the exit speed from pandemic restrictions substantially differ across governments? This...
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