Social Gradients in Employment during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Forfattere:
Alstadsæter, Annette, Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
År:
2023
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IZA Discussion Papers 16260
Sammendrag (engelsk)
We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially skewed effects of the crisis through its early phases, we find no long-term effects on employees exposed to early risk of job loss. For those employed at the onset of the pandemic, both the level and the socioeconomic composition of employment quickly returned to normal. In contrast, we find considerable negative long-term employment effects on people who were non-employed when the crisis hit. We argue that these patterns can be explained by social insurance policies that gave priority to protecting existing jobs and to distribute benefits to those who were temporarily laid off. Given the extreme increase in the social insurance caseload, an almost unavoidable side-effect was reduced capacity for providing services to the already non-employed.
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Oppdragsgiver: ForskningsrådetOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.: 316475
Frisch prosjekt: 1137 - The corona crisis and its economic consequences
Oppdragsgiver: NFR via NMBU
Oppdragsgivers prosjektnr.: 315769
Frisch prosjekt: 1677 - Employment, investment, and inequality in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis
Oppdragsgiver: NFR via NMBU
Oppdragsgivers prosjektnr.: 341289
Frisch prosjekt: 2125 - Skatteforsk - Centre for tax research NMBU
