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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13650 Francine D. Blau
Josefine Koebe
Pamela Meyerhofer
Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?
Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the ...
(published in: Business Economics, 2021, 56, 168–178 )
J15, J16, J21
13649 Wim Naudé
Martin Cameron
Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19
When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown ...
(published in: Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 2021, 15 (2), 219 - 235)
H12, I15, I18, O55
13648 Amairisa Kouki
Robert M. Sauer
Child Health, Remote Work and the Female Wage Penalty
Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary ...
(published as 'Beyond the “Comforts” of work from home: Child health and the female wage penalty' in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104527 (without R. Sauer))
C26, J13, J22, I19
13647 Shuo Chen
Bin Xie
Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration and institutionalized discrimination against Chinese in U.S. society. This study examines the impact of institutional discrimination on ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 94, 101615)
J15, N31, K37
13645 Alberto Urtasun
Marta Martínez Matute
Uncertainty and Firms' Labour Decisions. Evidence from European Countries
Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2022, 25 (1), 220 - 241)
D22, D81, J21, J23
13644 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students
Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 87, 102233)
I24, I23, I22
13643 Matias Cortes
Eliza Forsythe
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By ...
(published as 'Distributional Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21 (2), 325-349.)
J31, J65, J68, H53, H84, E24
13641 George Psacharopoulos
Victoria Collis
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Emiliana Vegas
Lost Wages: The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's ...
(published as 'The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World' in: Comparative Education Review, 2021, 65, 271–287)
I26, I20, J24
13640 Kailing Shen
Bledi Taska
Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
We propose a reweighting-estimation-transformation (RWET) approach to estimate the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 153-171)
J21, J63, C55
13638 Teresa Molina
Ivan Rivadeneyra
The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador
This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 196, 104383)
I23, I24, I28, O15
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