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The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers()
We show that Covid-19 illnesses and related work absences persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not mis...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10113603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37152805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104889 |
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description | We show that Covid-19 illnesses and related work absences persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work for health reasons. Our estimates suggest Covid-19 absences have reduced the U.S. labor force by approximately 500,000 people (0.2 percent of adults) and imply an average labor supply loss per Covid-19 absence equivalent to $9,000 in forgone earnings, about 90 percent of which reflects losses beyond the initial absence week. |
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spelling | pubmed-101136032023-04-19 The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers() Goda, Gopi Shah Soltas, Evan J. J Public Econ Article We show that Covid-19 illnesses and related work absences persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work for health reasons. Our estimates suggest Covid-19 absences have reduced the U.S. labor force by approximately 500,000 people (0.2 percent of adults) and imply an average labor supply loss per Covid-19 absence equivalent to $9,000 in forgone earnings, about 90 percent of which reflects losses beyond the initial absence week. Elsevier B.V. 2023-06 2023-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10113603/ /pubmed/37152805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104889 Text en © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Goda, Gopi Shah Soltas, Evan J. The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers() |
title | The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers() |
title_full | The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers() |
title_fullStr | The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers() |
title_full_unstemmed | The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers() |
title_short | The impacts of Covid-19 absences on workers() |
title_sort | impacts of covid-19 absences on workers() |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10113603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37152805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104889 |
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