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Transatlantic Excess Mortality Comparisons in the Pandemic
From the Abstract: "In a previous article, we considered key issues for comparing rates of excess mortality between countries and regions, with an application to European countries. This article compares the U.S. with Europe, and U.S. regions with the main European countries. The U.S. policy-makers had multiple advantages over European countries, such as Italy and Spain, in responding to the first wave of the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic: more time to react, with excess deaths lagging three weeks behind, and a younger, less densely-populated, less urban population. With the further passage of time, medical knowledge about Covid-19 has improved, health and testing capacities have been built up and practical experience has allowed both the private precautionary responses of citizens and of public policies to develop. This should have given countries and regions, for example, the U.S. South, the West and the Midwest, together accounting for 83 percent of the U.S. population, and where the spread of virus occurred later, a further advantage over those caught up in the first pandemic wave. Despite this, a comparison for the whole of the U.S. with Europe, excluding Russia, shows that the cumulative rate of excess mortality in 2020 was 'higher' in the U.S.."
University of Oxford. Oxford Martin School
Aron, Janine; Muellbauer, John
2020-08-25
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COVID-19 Restrictions in the US: Wage Vulnerability by Education, Race and Gender
From the Abstract: "We study the wage vulnerability to the stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures imposed to prevent COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] contagion in the US by education, race, gender, and state. Under 2 months of lockdown plus 10 months of partial functioning we find that both wage inequality and poverty increase in the US for all social groups and states. For the whole country, we estimate an increase in inequality of 4.1 Gini points and of 9.7 percentage points for poverty, with uneven increases by race, gender, and education. The restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the pandemic produce a double process of divergence: both inequality within and between social groups increase, with education accounting for the largest part of the rise in inequality between groups. We also find that education level differences impact wage poverty risk more than differences by race or gender, making lower-educated groups the most vulnerable while graduates of any race and gender are similarly less exposed. When measuring mobility as the percentile rank change, most women with secondary education or higher move up, while most men without higher education suffer downward mobility. Our findings can inform public policy aiming to address the disparities in vulnerability to pandemic-related shocks across different socioeconomic groups."
University of Oxford. Oxford Martin School. Institute for New Economic Thinking
Gambau, Borja; Palomino, Juan C.; Rodríguez, Juan G. . . .
2021-05-04
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COVID-19 Shock on the Labour Market: Poverty and Inequality Effects Across Spanish Regions
From the Abstract: "We evaluate the distributional consequences of social distancing for the case of Spanish regions. Under 2 months of lockdown plus 10 months of partial functioning our study consistently finds potential wage losses that are sizeable and uneven across the wage distribution all around Spain, but with different intensity depending on the region's productive structure. The increase of the headcount poverty index oscillates between 8.2 (Navarre) and 19.2 (the Balearic Islands) percentage points, while the Gini coefficient rises between 2.3 (Navarre) and 5.3 (the Balearic Islands) Gini points. We also find that inequality between regions increases, eroding regional cohesion in Spain." This document includes charts, tables, and graphs to illustrate the text.
University of Oxford. Oxford Martin School. Institute for New Economic Thinking
Palomino, Juan C.; Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel; Sebastián, Raquel
2021-01-29
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