COVID-19: Jobs, Mental Health and Social Policies

In this project, a research team at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw.ac.at) is investigating important structural and distributional social impacts of the COVID -19 pandemic. In addition to the impact of the crisis on different economic sectors and on their organisation, the topics of employment and re-employment as well as the perspectives of different social groups are taken into account. For this purpose, a model is developed that captures the main features of the social and structural impacts in the medium and long term (`agent-based stock-flow consistent model`). Besides factors of labour market economics, it also includes changes in technology, productivity and work organisation as well as economic policy decisions. Four empirical studies shed light on important components of the theoretical model. These include structural developments of economic activities, different employment models, homeworking and effects on mental health, analysis of government measures. Michael A. Landesmann, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

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