Data Resources on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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A number of national and international research projects are currently underway that empirically
record the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection is wide and ranges
from snapshots of surveys with self-selected samples, representative surveys, longitudinal studies,
experiments, etc..
IZA’s Research Data Center (IDSC) collects and curates the information on such new initiatives.
Projects with high research output based on number of IZA Discussion Papers or otherwise are
promoted especially as “featured resources” on the top of our website.
Please contact the IDSC of IZA for any suggestions of further content at
idsc@iza.org.
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COVID Inequality Project
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The project is documenting the impact of the pandemic on workers. It is particularly interested in understanding how the outbreak of COVID-19 and government policies are impacting inequality across many dimensions, such as age, gender, occupation, work arrangements, and education.
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Already two survey waves were launched (N > 20.000) collecting responses from large geographically representative samples in the US and UK and one survey wave in Germany. The goal is to inform the policy, academic, and public community about the impact of these dramatic developments and the recovery on different groups of society.
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#13183
Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
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#15307
Perceived Returns to Job Search
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#14808
The Value of Sick Pay
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#13965
When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times
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#13374
Work That Can Be Done from Home: Evidence on Variation within and across Occupations and Industries
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#13183
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Helsinki Gradutae School of Economics Situation Room
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19The Situation Room consists of leading economists from Helsinki GSE, VATT Institute for Economic Research, as well as members from several public authorities. It utilizes data from relevant public and private sources and produces regular reports for policymakers. The data is collected and organized in close cooperation with Statistics Finland, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, Bank of Finland, Finnish Tax Administration, Kela and other institutions. The situation room cooperates closely with Vesa Vihriälä’s group, which is focused on the longer-term economic implications of the crisis.
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Homebase Real-Time Corona Virus Data on US Small Businesses
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Homebase (HB) data consists of daily records of volume of hours worked by employees, the number of businesses open at all, the number of employees working, and wages of employees, linked longitudinally to the establishment where they work and the firm that controls the establishment. The data is recorded in real-time through HB’s proprietary software and is used for payroll processing.
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The HB data also contains an industry category for each establishment, but the available categories do not directly line up with standard industry classification. However, HB establishment records maybe matched by name or address to other Points of Interest (POI), geographic information or standard industry classifications.
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Rapid Action Coronavirus Earth Observation (Race)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The European Space Agency ESA and the European Commission have set up a new internet platform with data from Earth observation. The project, called "Rapid Action Coronavirus Earth Observation" (Race) uses satellite images from the Copernicus earth observation program and provides information on environmental pollution, economic activity or traffic.
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Safegraph Places Weekly Patterns
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Base information such as location name, address, category, and brand association for points of interest (POIs) where people spend time or money. Place traffic and demographic aggregations that answer: how often people visit, how long they stay, where they came from, where else they go, and more. Available for ~4.4MM POI. Safegraph updates the Places dataset usually every month with the past month's openings and closings and maintains a persistent key across releases. Safegraph is only temporarily offering the Weekly Patterns dataset which is updated on a weekly basis.
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Weekly Patterns is very similar to Safegraph's normal Patterns product with some differences:
1) Each delivery of Weekly Patterns covers one week starting Monday and ending end of day on Sunday. The data will be available three days later on Wednesday of each week.
2) In Weekly Patterns, Safegraph includes a visits by each hour column to enable to get a more detailed view of the week.
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Which Jobs Are Done from Home?
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This repository contains the datasets and the code corresponding to the paper "Which jobs are done from home? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey by Hensvik, Lena, Thomas Le Barbanchon, and Roland Rathelot. Also, the share of hours worked at home by occupation and industry can be found here.
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Work at Home Index
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This repository contains the code and data underlying the note "How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?" by Jonathan I. Dingel and Brent Neiman. The researchers classify the feasibility of working at home for all occupations and merge this classification with occupational employment counts. The occupational classification is applied to 85 other countries. Other researchers have applied the measures to Australian occupational codes and to US state-level.
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#13963
Being on the Frontline? Immigrant Workers in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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#13827
COVID-19 School Closures and Parental Labor Supply in the United States
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#13282
COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data
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#13468
Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Metropolitan Status and Size
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#14223
From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
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#13801
How Does the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Labor Demand? An Analysis Using Job Board Data From Austria
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#13443
Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status
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#13237
Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis
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#13862
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
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#13254
The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada
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#15209
What COVID-19 May Leave Behind: Technology-Related Job Postings in Canada
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#13138
Which Jobs Are Done from Home? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
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#13650
Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?
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#13374
Work That Can Be Done from Home: Evidence on Variation within and across Occupations and Industries
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#13963