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The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health
According to the World Health Organization (Mental health and COVID-19: early evidence of the pandemic’s impact: scientific brief, 2 March 2022,...
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Old-age unemployment and labour supply: an application to Belgium
Over the last two decades, social security reforms in several European countries have turned early retirement routes for older workers increasingly...
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Multi-dimensional Panels in Health Economics with an Application on Antibiotic Consumption
Variation in healthcare use and health outcomes is a major concern for health policy. The availability of multi-dimensional administrative panel data...
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Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate...
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The Economic Contribution of a Cohort of New Firms Over Time
What is the economic contribution of a cohort of new entrants? Previous research has investigated this topic but only in passing, and found...
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Demand Elasticities for Publishing Mail Traffic in the UK: Intensive and Extensive Margins
The on-going decline in letter volumes is encouraging national postal operators to examine segments of mail traffic at a finer level of detail to...
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The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 on occupations
We adopt a pandemic-macroeconomic model to simulate the macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 on various occupations under both laissez-faire and...
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Working from home is here to stay, but how does it affect workplace learning?
This paper analyses how working from home affects workplace learning in terms of theoretical and practical knowledge during COVID19. We employ panel...
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Wettbewerb in Zeiten der Pandemie
Numerous markets are affected during the coronavirus pandemic by corporate closures and insolvencies, mergers and reduced incentives for start-ups....
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Describing the impacts of COVID-19 on the labor market in Japan until June 2020
The Labor Force Survey, a large-scale government statistics, and the causal forest algorithm are used to estimate the group average treatment effect...
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Human Capital, Productivity and Compensation in Jamaica
Human Capital development is important for productivity growth in any economy. This chapter investigates Human Capital development in Jamaica....
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Short-term labour transitions and informality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America
Latin America was one of the regions hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyses, from a dynamic and comparative perspective, labour...
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Gender gaps: back and here to stay? Evidence from skilled Ugandan workers during COVID-19
We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency...
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How Adaptive Leadership Facilitates Employees’ Career Adaptability During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
The spread of the COVID-19 epidemic has significantly influenced human resource management and organizational behavior. A lack of adaptability and...
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Innovate to Resist: Are Innovators Shielded from External Shocks?
Economic shocks are often difficult to predict, as they are independent of the will of the economic agents affected and, therefore, exogenous to...
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Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 Policy Decisions on Economic Growth: Evidence from EU Countries
In this chapter, we examine the link between the policy responses to the COVID-19 outbreak and economic growth. Using three key response variables...
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Reinforcement of Economic Inequality and Extra Economic Power—Law and Political Economy of the US Pandemic Policy Response
In this chapter, by adopting a Law and Political Economy (LPE) approach, we show that the US policy response resulted in increased inequalities....
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Impact of financial literacy, perceived access to finance, ICT use, and digitization on credit constraints: evidence from Qatari MSME importers
This study investigates the role of financial literacy (FL), perceived access to finance (PAF), information communication technology (ICT) usage, and...
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Adverse selection, efficiency and the structure of information
This paper explores how the structure of asymmetric information impacts on economic outcomes in Akerlof’s (Q J Econ 84(3):488–500, 1970) Lemons model...