Purpose The ongoing pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus
has severely influenced lives and livelihoods. As service organizations either face …

This chapter argues that developing countries will be harder hit by the pandemic than
advanced economies. They must navigate a perfect storm formed by domestic restrictions on …

The largest economic cost of the COVID-19 pandemic could arise from changes in behavior
long after the immediate health crisis is resolved. A potential source of such a long-lived …

We investigate the role of global value chains in the declines of manufacturing employment
and output in the US during COVID-19. Specifically, we identify the role of global value …

We use firm-level data to provide some early evidence on the effectiveness of COVID-19
economic policy packages. Our empirical strategy relies on the varying degree of …

We evaluate whether the changes in valuation of US corporates during the first wave of the
COVID-19 pandemic depend on their downstream or upstream industries' exposure to social …

The Decline of Employment During COVID-19: The Role of Contact-Intensive Industries Page 1
Introduction The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the labor market …

This paper uses administrative data from a private payroll processor whose clients are
primarily very small businesses (median 5 employees) to measure the effects of financial …

COVID-19 has adverse impacts on contact-intensive sectors, viz., manufacturing, tourism,
and the entertainment sector (ES). In a general equilibrium (GE) model with online …

In a remarkable feat, India has been rather successfully observing an almost 100%
lockdown over more than two weeks now, and there is an increasing speculation that the …