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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India: Gender Inequality in Employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India, economic shocks are expected to have disparate...

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Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics

Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022

Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...

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Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists

Foster, Gigi; Frijters, Paul - 2022

In 2020 and 2021, the world witnessed policies that caused enormous net damage to nearly every country. We demonstrate the usefulness of the new WELLBY currency in gauging the costs and benefits of COVID policies and review the contributions of Australian economists to the scholarly and public...

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Perceived Returns to Job Search

Adams-Prassl, Abigail; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; … - 2022

In this paper we provide the first evidence on workers' perceptions of the returns to job search effort. The perceived job finding probability is nearly linear in hours searched and only slightly concave for most respondents. While workers are over-optimistic about the probability of receiving a...

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Corporate Training and Skill Gaps: Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022

European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain – and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over the last six years examining trends, factors...

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Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use and Learning Loss during COVID-19

Asadullah, Niaz; Bhattacharjee, Anindita - 2022

COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on primary and secondary school children in slum and rural...

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Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning during COVID

Datta, Sandip; Kingdon, Geeta G. - 2022

During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young people's internet access across gender, caste, religion,...

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The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic: Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups

Aubert, Cécile; Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …

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Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis

Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette; Oseni, Gbemisola; … - 2022

We use high frequency phone survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda to analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on work (including wage employment, self-employment, and farm work) and income, as well as heterogeneity by gender, family composition, education, age, pre-COVID-19...

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Sweden's COVID-19 Recession: How Foreign and Domestic Infections Struck against Firms and Workers

Akerman, Anders; Ekholm, Karolina; Persson, Torsten; … - 2022

Using highly granular micro data, we document very divergent economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish private-sector firms and their workers. Firms that exported to, or imported from, heavily afflicted countries reduced their output due to disrupted trade. Service firms that operated...

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