Preserving Links in the Pandemic

Michael R. Strain is the director of Economic Policy Studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a research fellow with the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, a research affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Stan Veuger is a senior fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives, as well as a fellow at the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and at Tilburg University.

Preserving Employer-Employee Links in the COVID-19 Era

Michael R. Strain and Stan Veuger

1. The Value of Job Matches

Ian M. Schmutte

2. Did the Australian JobKeeper Program Save Jobs by Subsidizing Temporary Layoffs?

Jeff Borland and Jennifer Hunt

3. The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy as an Employer-Based Response to the Pandemic: First Steps, Missteps, and Next Steps

Miles Corak

4. Whatever It Takes: Subsidizing Short-Time Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic in France

Xavier Jaravel

5. German Labor Market Policy During and After the COVID-19 Recession

Tom Krebs

6. COVID-19: The Italian Job

Russell Cooper and Immo Schott

7. The Dutch Experience with Job-Preserving Policy During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Roel Beetsma and Raymond Gradus

8. Labor Hoarding and Employment Protection During the COVID-19 Crisis in a Dual Labor Market: Spain

Juan F. Jimeno

9. Policies to Preserve Worker-Firm Links During the Pandemic: Lessons from the UK’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Jonathan Cribb and Paul Johnson

10. How Was the US Government Able to Borrow So Much During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Ricardo Reis

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