The intensity of covid-19 non-pharmaceutical Interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector

Marcén, Miriam (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Morales, Marina (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This paper examines whether the intensity of Non‐Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) during the COVID‐19 pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative economic consequences of COVID‐19 and their dissimilarities with a typical economic crisis. To capture the intensity of the NPIs, we build a novel index (COVINDEX) using daily information on NPIs merged with state‐level data on out‐of‐home mobility (Google data) to show that among individuals living in a typical state, NPI enforcement during COVID‐19 reduces the likelihood of being employed (at work) by 5% with respect to the pre‐COVID period and the hours worked by 1.3% using data on labor market outcomes from the monthly Current Population Survey and difference‐in‐difference models. This is a sizable amount representing the sector with the higher job security during the pandemic. Public sector workers in a typical state are 4 percentage points more likely to be at work than salaried workers in the private sector and 7 percentage points more likely to be at work than self‐employed workers (the worst so far). Our results are robust to the endogeneity of the NPI measures and present empirical evidence of heterogeneity in response to the NPIs, with those in local employment being the hardest hit.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1111/jors.12535

Año: 2021

Publicado en: JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE 61, 4 (2021), 775-798
ISSN: 0022-4146

Factor impacto JCR: 2.807 (2021)

Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 137 / 381 = 0.36 (2021) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING rank: 24 / 40 = 0.6 (2021) - Q3 - T2
Categ. JCR: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES rank: 83 / 128 = 0.648 (2021) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 4.0 - Social Sciences (Q1) - Environmental Science (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.88 - Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Development (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S32-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-114354RA-I00

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)