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Work from Home & Productivity : Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals

Gibbs, Michael; Mengel, Friederike; Siemroth, Christoph - 2021

We study productivity before and during the working from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic, using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company. Hours worked increased, including a rise of 18% outside normal business hours....

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The COVID-19 Resilience of a Continental Welfare Regime - Nowcasting the Distributional Impact of the Crisis

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Kyzyma, Iryna; … - 2021

We evaluate the COVID-19 resilience of a Continental welfare regime by nowcasting the implications of the shock and its associated policy responses on the distribution of household incomes. Our approach relies on a dynamic microsimulation approach that combines a household income generation...

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Tax Administration in the Times of An Economic Crisis, COVID-19, Vis-à-Vis India

Agarwal, Priyansh - 2021

Amidst the pandemic, discussions are happening about liquidity, tax compliance and economic development all around the world. The COVID-19 outbreak has proved to be devastating to the economies around the world. India’s GDP has been affected by the negative touchdown. Government of India has...

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Lockdowns as Options

van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2021

I show that the irreversibility of dying coupled with gradual information acquisition over time on the likely arrival and eventual effectiveness of vaccines confers a real option value to lockdown strategies that delay the incidence of a pandemic.The case for lockdown strategies becomes stronger...

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COVID-19 Pandemic and Human Behavioral Response

Mandal, Fatik Baran - 2021

virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2). A number of important research findings have been …

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Persuasion and Public Health : Evidence from An Experiment with Religious Leaders during COVID-19 in Pakistan

Vyborny, Kate - 2021

We use a Randomized Controlled Trial in Pakistan to test whether one-on-one engagement with community religious leaders can encourage them to advise congregants to comply with public health guidelines from state authorities. We test whether religious content in this engagement increases its...

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The Day After Covid-19 : Implications for Growth, Specialization, and Inequality

Magrini, Stefano; Spiganti, Alessandro - 2021

In the post-pandemic world, digital communication will be integral part of daily working to a higher extent than before, with a disproportionally strong impact on knowledge-based activities, like innovation and research. We present a multi-area endogenous growth model where abstract knowledge...

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Getting Down to Brass Tax : Why Courts Should Use Equitable Tolling to Help Taxpayer-Petitioners Impacted by COVID-19

Fisher, Hannah - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic caused some of the sharpest rises in American unemployment and poverty seen in a generation. This left people with less money in their pockets, but also less time and access to resources to diligently pursue their legal rights and remedies. Congress responded by providing...

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Corona Pandemic. Corona-Virus as Global Pandemic

Roudgar, Iraj - 2021

The Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) has spread around the world, taking more casualties from the international … and it is increasing every day. But what is certain is that this Coronavirus Pandemic will change many political and … Post-Corona world. The Coronavirus will also involve essential changes in the way social activities are carried out in …

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Weathering the COVID Storm : The Effect of Employee Engagement on Firm Performance During the COVID Pandemic

Smith, Drew; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Chen, Gilad; … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated need for remote work has required organizations to adapt and demonstrate resiliency in order to continue to deliver on their purpose. Since employee engagement is key to organizational effectiveness and adaptation, in this study, we examine whether there are...

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