The intensity of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines whether the intensity of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative economic consequences of COVID-19 and their dissimilarities with a typical economic crisis. To capture the intensity of the NPIs, we build a novel index (COVINDEX) using daily information on NPIs merged with state-level data on out-of-home mobility (Google data). We show that among individuals living in a typical state, NPI enforcement during COVID-19 reduces the likelihood of being employed (at work) by 5% with respect to the pre-COVID period and the hours worked by 1.3% using data on labor market outcomes from the monthly

SUBMITTER: Marcen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8251414 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature