Lockdown stringency and employment formality: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

T Köhler, H Bhorat, R Hill, B Stanwix - Journal for Labour Market Research, 2023 - Springer
In response to COVID-19 most governments used some form of lockdown policy to manage
the pandemic. This required making iterative policy decisions in a rapidly changing …

Temporary wage subsidies and post-COVID re-employment in Morocco: a regression discontinuity approach

A Chatri, N Tahir - International Review of Applied Economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper aims to evaluate the causal effect of a temporary wage subsidy scheme
implemented in Morocco during the COVID-19 crisis. It exploits a discontinuity in the …