Adjustments of local labour markets to the COVID-19 crisis: The role of digitalisation and working-from-home
Ben Yahmed, Sarra
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Berlingieri, Francesco
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Brüll, Eduard
URN:
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-634250
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Dokumenttyp:
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Arbeitspapier
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Erscheinungsjahr:
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2022
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Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe:
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ZEW Discussion Papers
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Band/Volume:
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22-031
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Ort der Veröffentlichung:
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Mannheim
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Sprache der Veröffentlichung:
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Englisch
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Einrichtung:
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Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
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MADOC-Schriftenreihe:
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Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
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Fachgebiet:
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330 Wirtschaft
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Fachklassifikation:
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JEL:
J21 , O3 , R12 , R23,
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Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):
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COVID-19 crisis , digitalisation , employment , information and communication technologies , local labour markets , short-time work , working-from-home
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Abstract:
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Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the pandemic, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 20 percentage points. We show that digital capital, and to a lesser extent working-from-home, were essential for the resilience of local labour markets. Using an empirical strategy that combines a difference-in-differences approach with propensity score weighting, we find that local exposure to digital capital reduced short-time work usage by up to 4 percentage points and the effect lasted for about 8 months. Working-from-home potential lowered short-time work rates, but only in local labour markets exposed to digital capital, and in the first four months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets were at most 2 percentage points and did not depend on digital capital or working-from-home potential.
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