Epidemic-economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies

Schmidt, Torben Dall; Mitze, Timo

doi:10.1080/00343404.2023.2183945

Epidemic-economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies

Publication date

2023-04-11

Document type

Forschungsartikel

Author

Schmidt, Torben Dall

Mitze, Timo

Organisational unit

BWL, insb. Leadership und Labour Relations

DTEC.bw

DOI

10.1080/00343404.2023.2183945

URI

https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/handle/10.24405/22520

Project

Sozio-oekonomisches Panel Linked Employer Employee Survey Vers. 2

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Series or journal

Regional Studies

ISSN

0034-3404

Periodical volume

58

Periodical issue

2

First page

322

Last page

335

Peer-reviewed

✅

Part of the university bibliography

✅

Language

English

Keyword

dtec.bw

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened public health and socio-economic activities across societal groups and geographies. We analyse the complex interplay between epidemic and economic factors using a structural panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) approach for Danish municipalities. Findings indicate that the pandemic shock and associated public health interventions led to significant increases in unemployment rates. Wage compensations reduce regional unemployment through both a direct local effect and indirect spatial spillovers. Decomposing the unemployment rate by skill, we find that the response to an increase in wage compensations is only significant for low-skilled persons and that it is larger in urban compared with rural settings.

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