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ArticleLabour economics2021

Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands.

Lena Janys, Christian Zimpelmann, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Bettina Siflinger, Radost Holler

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Article in Labour economics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Lena JanysIZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany.
Christian ZimpelmannIZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany.
Hans-Martin von GaudeckerIZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany.
Bettina SiflingerTilburg University, the Netherlands.
Radost HollerBonn Graduate School of Economics, Bonn, Germany.

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rUsing customized panel data spanning the entire year of 2020, we analyze the dynamics of working hours and household income across different stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many other countries, during this period, the Netherlands experienced a quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, adopted a set of fairly strict social distancing measures, gradually reopened, and imposed another lockdown to contain the second wave. We show that socioeconomic status is strongly related to changes in working hours, especially when strict economic restrictions are in place. In contrast, household income is equally unaffected for all socioeconomic groups. Examining the drivers of these observations, we find that pandemic-specific job characteristics (the ability to work from home and essential worker status) help explain the socioeconomic gradient in total working hours. Household income is largely decoupled from shocks to working hours for employees. We provide suggestive evidence that large-scale labor hoarding schemes have helped insure employees against shocks to their employers.

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PMCPMC8444357

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