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COVID-19 and the US Safety Net.
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- Earnings shocks and stabilization during COVID-19.Journal of public economics · 2022Article
- Inclusivity of Persons With Disabilities in the Work Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- The association of COVID-19 employment shocks with suicide and safety net use: An early-stage investigation.PloS one · 2022Article
- Awareness and use of (emergency) sick leave: US employees' unaddressed sick leave needs in a global pandemic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Food Hardship during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Great Recession.Applied economic perspectives and policy · 2021Article
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Abstract
We examine trends in employment, earnings and incomes over the last two decades in the United States, and how the safety net has responded to changing fortunes, including the shutdown of the economy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The US safety net is a patchwork of different programmes providing in-kind as well as cash benefits, and it had many holes prior to the pandemic. In addition, few of the programmes are designed explicitly as automatic stabilisers. We show that the safety net response to employment losses in the COVID-19 pandemic largely consists only of increased support from unemployment insurance and food assistance programmes, an inadequate response compared with the magnitude of the downturn. We discuss options to reform social assistance in the United States to provide more robust income floors in times of economic downturns.
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