Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes

We assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and particularly the sectorspecific mobility restrictions on the Colombian labour market. We exploit the sectoral and temporal variation of the restriction policies to identify their effect. Mobility restrictions significantly reduced employment, accounting for approximately a quarter of the total job loss between February and April of 2020. The remaining three quarters of the job losses could be attributed to the disease's regional patterns and other epidemiological and economic factors affecting the whole country. Therefore, we should expect important employment losses even in the absence of such restrictions. We also assess the effect of restrictions on the intensive margin, finding negative, although smaller effects on the number of hours worked and wages. Most of the employment effect is driven by salaried workers, while self-employment was more responsive to the disease spread. Finally, we find that women are disproportionally affected: mobility restrictions account for a third of the recent increase of the gender gap in salaried employment.

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“…2020, Gupta et al. 2020, Kong and Prinz 2020 and Lozano Rojas et al. 2020 for the United States; Barrot et al.…”

Section: Covid‐19 Pandemic and Mobility Restriction Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the Colombian labour market: Disentangling the effect of sector‐specific mobility restrictions

Morales

Bonilla‐Mejía

Pulido

et al. 2022

Canadian J of Economics

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“…Recent empirical evidence suggests that lockdown measures have had a significant impact on employment, including reductions in working hours, furloughs, and work-from-home arrangements [Coibion et al (2020), Gupta et al (2020), Brodeur et al (2021)]. Amid this unprecedented uncertainty, many companies have been forced to close or reduce their employees' number of working hours.…”

Section: The Spanish Labor Market and The Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Has the COVID-19 pandemic widened the gender gap in paid work hours in Spain?

2022

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This paper analyzes the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the within-household gender gap in relation to paid work hours in full-time employed heterosexual couples in Spain. Using the Spanish Labor Force Survey (2019–2020) and a difference-in-differences method, we analyze three stages of the pandemic: strict lockdown, de-escalation, and partial closures to study the short-term effects and potential medium-term effects on gender inequality in terms of paid work hours. Our results suggest that during the strict lockdown period there was a tendency to fall back on traditional family gendered patterns to manage the work–life balance, especially when young children are present in male-headed households. However, this phenomenon seems to be a short-term consequence of the pandemic. The sector of activity (essential or non-essential) has also played a key role, the gender gap increased in male-headed households with female partners employed in non-essential sectors.

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“…Second, and more related to the work at hand, are works leveraging digital traces to understand the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, economy, society, and human needs (Abay, Tafere, and Woldemichael 2020;Gupta et al 2020;Tubadji, Boy, and Webber 2020). We highlight two recent papers based on search data.…”

Section: The Web In Times Of Covid-19mentioning

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Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis

Ribeiro

Gligorić

Peyrard

et al. 2021

ICWSM

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We study how the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the severe mobility restrictions that ensued, has impacted information access on Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia. A longitudinal analysis that combines pageview statistics for 12 Wikipedia language editions with mobility reports published by Apple and Google reveals massive shifts in the volume and the nature of information seeking patterns amidst the pandemic. Interestingly, while we observe a transient increase in Wikipedia's pageviews volume following mobility restrictions, the nature of what people seek for was impacted in the long run. These changes are most pronounced for language editions associated with countries in which the most severe mobility restrictions were implemented. We also find that articles belonging to different topics behaved differently, e.g., attention towards entertainment-related topics is lingering and even increasing, while the interest in health- and biology-related topics was either unsubstantial or transient. Our results highlight the utility of Wikipedia to study how the pandemic changed information seeking behavior regarding shifting needs, interests, and concerns.

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Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes

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Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the Colombian labour market: Disentangling the effect of sector‐specific mobility restrictions

Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the Colombian labour market: Disentangling the effect of sector‐specific mobility restrictions

Has the COVID-19 pandemic widened the gender gap in paid work hours in Spain?

Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis

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