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The unemployment effects of closing non-essential activities during the COVID-19 lockdown: The Spanish municipalities()

We study the labour market impact of the confinement measures implemented in Spain to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. We use data from 8108 municipalities to quantify the impact of the shutdown of non-essential activity on local unemployment. Ordinary least squ...

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Autores principales: Serra, Laura, Silva, José I., Vall-llosera, Laura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9513998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.09.019
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description We study the labour market impact of the confinement measures implemented in Spain to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. We use data from 8108 municipalities to quantify the impact of the shutdown of non-essential activity on local unemployment. Ordinary least squares regressions show that an increment of 10 percentage points in the share of firms performing non-essential activities increased the unemployment–population ratio by between 0.032 and 0.148 percentage points. We only find this positive effect in municipalities with more than 2395 inhabitants. The lockdown explains between 25% and 40% of the observed increase in the unemployment within these municipalities. We also look at the impact of the lockdown by gender and age, and find that the impact of these closures was felt relatively more by males and workers above 45 years old.
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spelling pubmed-95139982022-09-27 The unemployment effects of closing non-essential activities during the COVID-19 lockdown: The Spanish municipalities() Serra, Laura Silva, José I. Vall-llosera, Laura Econ Anal Policy Analyses of Topical Policy Issues We study the labour market impact of the confinement measures implemented in Spain to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. We use data from 8108 municipalities to quantify the impact of the shutdown of non-essential activity on local unemployment. Ordinary least squares regressions show that an increment of 10 percentage points in the share of firms performing non-essential activities increased the unemployment–population ratio by between 0.032 and 0.148 percentage points. We only find this positive effect in municipalities with more than 2395 inhabitants. The lockdown explains between 25% and 40% of the observed increase in the unemployment within these municipalities. We also look at the impact of the lockdown by gender and age, and find that the impact of these closures was felt relatively more by males and workers above 45 years old. Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-12 2022-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9513998/ /pubmed/36186950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.09.019 Text en © 2022 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by 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.
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title_short The unemployment effects of closing non-essential activities during the COVID-19 lockdown: The Spanish municipalities()
title_sort unemployment effects of closing non-essential activities during the covid-19 lockdown: the spanish municipalities()
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