The GLO Cluster Coronavirus allocates efforts of members of the GLO network to understand the challenges of the new virus and to support the development of strategies to manage it and to learn for future pandemics.

Cluster Lead: Klaus F. Zimmermann

Activities:

The GLO network is invited to send:

• Discussion Papers to DP@glabor.org
• News to Office@glabor.org
• Policy pieces to the GLO Policy Forum through azita.berar@graduateinstitute.ch
• Research articles for possible publication to the Journal of Population Economics
• Contact the GLO President through klaus.f.zimmermann@gmail.com

GLO posts (date) and links (link) to specific member activities:

• The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Mobility and Traffic Accidents: Evidence from Louisiana. A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Louis-Philippe Beland and colleagues.
  July 28, 2020
• Unemployment of Unskilled Labor due to COVID-19 led Restriction on Migration and Trade. A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Biswajit Mandal and colleagues.
  July 28, 2020
• Reacting quickly and protecting jobs: The short-term impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Greek labor market. A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Nicholas Giannakopoulos and colleagues.
  July 28, 2020
• A Global City in a Global Pandemic: Assessing the Ongoing Impact of COVID Induced Trends on London’s Economic Sectors. A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Jonathan Portes and colleagues.
  July 27, 2020
• The Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: First Order Effects on Gender Gaps in Employment and Domestic Time Use in India. A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Ashwini Deshpande.
  July 27, 2020
• Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Hai-Anh Dang and Trong-Anh Trinh
  July 26, 2020
• COVID-19, Race, and Redlining. A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellows Graziella Bertocchi & Arcangelo Dimico.
  July 23, 2020
• Wage Losses and Inequality in Developing Countries: labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey. A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Anil Duman
  July 22, 2020
• A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19: A new GLO Discussion Paper by GLO Fellow Abel Brodeur & colleagues.
  July 21, 2020
• Preserving job matches during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence on the role of government aid. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  July 11, 2020
• The Short-Term Effect of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Workers in Canada. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  July 8, 2020
• Series of webinars (July 9-30, 2020) on “Modeling COVID-19 Pandemic: Resources, Methodology, and Applications”. Register Now!
  July 7, 2020
• A tale of three countries: How did Covid-19 lockdown impact happiness? A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  July 7, 2020
• The first victims of Covid-19 in developing countries? The most vulnerable workers to the lockdown of the Tunisian economy. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  July 4, 2020
• Webinar with GLO Southeast Asia Lead Niaz Asadullah on “COVID-19, Schooling and Learning in Bangladesh”
  June 24, 2020
• Markov switching models for happiness during a pandemic: The New-Zealand experience. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 24, 2020
• Greek Policy Advisor Panos Tsakloglou on the Greek Story in the COVID-19 Crisis. An Interview.
  June 16, 2020
• Turning Vietnam’s COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A new GLO Discussion Paper
  June 16, 2020
• The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 15, 2020
• Report on the ‘Third IESR-GLO Joint Conference’, June 5-7, on COVID-19. With links to videos of the keynote lectures of Acemoglu & Manski.
  June 13, 2020
• COVID-19, Stay-at-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 7, 2020
• Day II Flashlight: IESR-GLO Joint Conference on COVID-19 with Daron Acemoglu, Charles Manski & 16 paper presenters & 16 discussants. Last conference day.
  June 7, 2020
• Happiness-lost: Did Governments make the right decisions to combat Covid-19? A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 7, 2020
• The Role of Institutional Trust in Medical Care Seeking during the COVID-19 Pandemic. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 7, 2020
• In Operation: IESR-GLO Joint Conference on COVID-19 with Daron Acemoglu, Charles Manski & 16 paper presenters. Second day today. Some pictures of yesterday.
  June 6, 2020
• The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 5, 2020
• Stay-at-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 4, 2020
• COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  June 3, 2020
• Full Program & Registration for Third IESR-GLO Joint Conference with Daron Acemoglu (MIT) and Charles Manski (Northwestern University) now available.
  June 1, 2020
• Ewa Björling, Andreas Hatzigeorgiou, Magnus Lodefalk & Fredrik Sjöholm on ‘COVID-19 and the Consequences for Free Trade’. GLO Policy Brief No. 3.
  June 1, 2020
• The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 30, 2020
• GLO Fellow Martin Kahanec appointed to the Slovak COVID-19 Economic Crisis Council. An interview about challenges and strategies.
  May 29, 2020
• Telework and Time Use in the United States. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 28, 2020
• Living and Working in Corona Times: Interview with Director Paulien Osse of the WageIndicator Foundation
  May 27, 2020
• Life Dissatisfaction and Anxiety in the COVID-19 Pandemic. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 26, 2020
• The short-term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 24, 2020
• All that glitters is not gold. Effects of working from home on income inequality at the time of COVID-19. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 23, 2020
• Asadullah, M Niaz (2020) “Is ASEAN’s COVID-19 response leaving migrant workers behind?” East Asia Forum.
  May 21, 2020.
• Interview with Data Scientist Pablo de Pedraza on data needs for growth and in crises
  May 18, 2020
• Asadullah, M Niaz, Maliki and Aulia, Fisca (2020) “COVID-19: What can Indonesia learn from past crises to avoid another poverty hike during the pandemic?“, The Conversation, 15 May, 2020
• Aulia, Fisca, Maliki and Asadullah, M Niaz (2020) “Without intervention, model shows COVID19 will drag at least 3.6 million Indonesians into poverty“, The Conversation.
  15 May, 2020
• Drawing policy suggestions to fight Covid-19 from hardly reliable data. A machine-learning contribution in a new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 15, 2020
• The COVID-19 crisis and telework: A research survey on experiences, expectations and hopes. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 13, 2020
• Call for Papers: Virtual IESR-GLO Conference on the Economics of Covid-19 with Daron Acemoglu & Charles Manski
  May 11, 2020
• “Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China” by Qiu, Yun & Chen, Xi & Shi, Wei
  Forthcoming: Journal of Population Economics, Issue 4, 2020.
  OPEN ACCESS OF ONLINE PUBLISHED VERSION.
  May 9, 2020
  English version of the top four Chinese media which have all interviewed and covered this JoPE study: People’s Daily >>> China Central Television >>> Global Times >>> Xinhua News Agency
• Working From Home Under COVID-19: A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  May 7, 2020
• Inter-country Distancing, Globalization and the Coronavirus Pandemic. GLO Discussion Paper No. 508 now accepted for publication in The World Economy.
  May 4, 2020
• The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19 in the United States: A new GLO Discussion Paper
  May 2, 2020
• Asadullah, M Niaz, Maliki and Aulia, Fisca (2020) “Learning from the past: strategies for poverty alleviation in Indonesia during COVID-19”, The Conversation
  May 1, 2020
• How do we think the COVID-19 crisis will affect our careers (if any remain)? A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  April 28, 2020
• Asadullah, M Niaz and Bhula-or, Ruttiya (2020) “Why Coronavirus Pandemic Will Worsen Inequality in Thailand“, The Diplomat 
  April 28, 2020
• Asadullah, M Niaz and Raman, Mishkatur (2020) “Migrant workers cut off from aid put public health at risk“, The Edge Financial Daily
  April 27, 2020.
• GLO Discussion Paper No. 508: Inter-country Distancing, Globalization and the Coronavirus Pandemic – Download PDF by Zimmermann, Klaus F. & Karabulut, Gokhan & Bilgin, Mehmet Huseyin & Doker, Asli Cansin
  April 24, 2020
• A joint European policy response to the corona crisis to strengthen the public sector and restart a more sustainable and social Europe. Jo Ritzen and colleagues in a new UNU-MERIT Discussion Paper and Discussion Event.
  April 24, 2020
• Confronting COVID-19 Myths: Morbidity and Mortality. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  April 23, 2020
• Italian Workers at Risk During the Covid-19 Epidemic. A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  April 21, 2020
• ” I fear it will be much worse.” GLO Interview on the #coronavirus with Howard Markel, physician and medical historian at the University of Michigan, who has studied the use of non-pharmaceutical interventions in the big influenza epidemic of 1918 in the US.
  April 20, 2020
• Interview with Development Economist Asad Islam of Monash University about the challenges of the #coronacrisis for developing economies
  April 19, 2020
• Reflections of the Jordanian Poet Hisham Bustani on the Coronacrisis. An Interview.
  April 17, 2020
• Do Quarantine Experiences and Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Affect Psychological Outcomes in China? A new GLO Discussion Paper.
  April 16, 2020
• Coronavirus research published in the Journal of Population Economics: Interview with the Editor-in-Chief.
  April 16, 2020
• Revealing the Sources of the Chinese Success Story in the Anti-Corona Fight, January-February 2020. Paper forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics.
  April 9, 2020
• Taksa, Lucy (2020), “Fighting words: how war metaphors can trigger racism“, The Lighthouse
  April 7, 2020
  Related see also: Taksa, Lucy (2020), “Plagues, Pandemics and Playback Loops: War-time footing and urgent lessons from history“, Macquarie Business School Centre for Workforce Futures; Taksa, Lucy (1994), “The Masked Disease: Oral History, Memory and the Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919”, in Darian-Smith, K. and Hamilton, P. (eds), Memory and History in Twentieth Century Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 77-91.
• The #Coronavirus Crisis and #happiness in real-time. A research program for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa of Talita Greyling and Stephanié Rossouw of GLO.
  April 7, 2020
• In Italy, alternatives to lockdown are inferior. Interview with Alessandro Cigno of the University of Florence.
  April 6, 2020
• No complete lockdown needed? The Swedish case. Interview with Erik Lindqvist of Stockholm University.
  April 3, 2020
• Global Insights – eine Meinung: Coronavirus und das Elend des “Lockdowns”.
  Op-ed of the GLO President on the perils of global lockdowns in the coronacrisis (in German).
  April 2, 2020
• COVID-19 Lockdown plays havoc with emotions and “Happiness Index” stays under pressure in South Africa
  April 1, 2020
• How far in the name of public health? Interview with Robert Sauer of Royal Holloway, London, about the public lockdown in the #coronavirus crisis.
  “It is time to end this misguided social experiment.”
  April 1, 2020
• Chinese lessons from the Coronavirus crisis & the global way forward. Interview with CCG President Henry Wang.
  March 30, 2020
• Life with Corona Study: ISDC invites survey participation.
  March 29, 2020
• CORONA Work Life Survey announced by WageIndicator Foundation
  March 29, 2020
• GLO President speaks with the Brazilian ‘Valor Econômico’ on the Coronavirus and the Future of Work.
  March 28, 2020
• GLO Fellow Chen Zhuo (University of Georgia) evaluating the public health system in China (China CDC) at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak.
  March 28, 2020 (link)
• Global race to #lockdown entire countries and the rise in #socialdistancing: What lessons to learn from the outbreak of the #coronavirus in China. A new GLO Discussion Paper on #COVID-19.
  March 17, 2020
• #Coronavirus and now? GLO – Interview with Top #Health Economist Xi Chen of Yale University
  March 16, 2020
• Adjusted Corona Proliferation: A new GLO Discussion Paper by Patrick Puhani
  March 15, 2020
• Ferdinand Dudenhöffer on the future of the car industry, the challenge of China and the coronavirus crisis. An Interview.
  March 9, 2020

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