#2 How wage subsidies can help workers stay home and reduce the long-term unemployment effects of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis

Photo by Tim Mossholder from Pexels     Authors: Eliana Carranza and Indhira Santos In this blog, we look at the potential of wage subsidies for supporting jobs and incomes during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis. The crisis affects both workers’ ability to go to work and the labor demand of firms that are forced to…

Confronting the Jobs Impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

The disruptive impact of the COVID-19 crisis on workers, labor markets, and livelihoods has further underlined the importance of the jobs agenda. COVID-19 has caused major disruptions in economies worldwide and specifically hit countries characterized by high levels of informality and fractured, incomplete social protection systems. These effects have so far prevented a full and…