Announcing the New Law and Political Economy Project
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Announcing the New Law and Political Economy Project
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GDP and employment flash estimates for the second quarter of 2020: GDP down by 12.1% and employment down by 2.8% in the euro area. (n.d.). Retrieved August 29, 2020, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-press-releases/-/2-14082020-AP
Baker, S. R., Bloom, N., & Terry, S. J. (2020). Using Disasters to Estimate the Impact of Uncertainty (Working Paper No. 27167; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27167
The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13266/
Racism and COVID-19: Inequities and Policing. (2020, June 18). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kDdingjmo&feature=youtu.be
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Online Harms & Disinformation Post-COVID. (n.d.). Retrieved 20 August 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2BmRuXbNhk
Hausmann, Ricardo. ‘Why Zoom Can’t Save the World | by Ricardo Hausmann’. Project Syndicate, 10 August 2020. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/high-economic-cost-of-business-travel-shutdown-by-ricardo-hausmann-2020-08.
Auerbach, A. J., Gorodnichenko, Y., & Murphy, D. (2020). Fiscal Policy and COVID19 Restrictions in a Demand-Determined Economy (Working Paper No. 27366; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27366
Ludvigson, S. C., Ma, S., & Ng, S. (2020). Covid19 and the Macroeconomic Effects of Costly Disasters (Working Paper No. 26987; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26987
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’Normal wasn’t working’—John Kerry, Phillip Atiba Goff and others on the new social contract post-COVID. (n.d.). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 12 August 2020, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/great-reset-social-contract-john-kerry-phillip-goff/
Andersen, M., Maclean, J. C., Pesko, M. F., & Simon, K. I. (2020). Effect of a Federal Paid Sick Leave Mandate on Working and Staying at Home: Evidence from Cellular Device Data (Working Paper No. 27138; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27138
Bartik, A. W., Cullen, Z. B., Glaeser, E. L., Luca, M., Stanton, C. T., & Sunderam, A. (2020). The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses (Working Paper No. 27623; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27623
Coibion, O., Gorodnichenko, Y., & Weber, M. (2020). Does Policy Communication During Covid Work? (Working Paper No. 27384; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27384
Kozlowski, J., Veldkamp, L., & Venkateswaran, V. (2020). Scarring Body and Mind: The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19 (Working Paper No. 27439; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27439
Bartik, A. W., Bertrand, M., Cullen, Z. B., Glaeser, E. L., Luca, M., & Stanton, C. T. (2020). How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey (Working Paper No. 26989; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26989
Brown, C. S., & Ravallion, M. (2020). Inequality and the Coronavirus: Socioeconomic Covariates of Behavioral Responses and Viral Outcomes Across US Counties (Working Paper No. 27549; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27549
Atkeson, A. (2020). What Will Be the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in the US? Rough Estimates of Disease Scenarios (Working Paper No. 26867; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26867
Coibion, O., Gorodnichenko, Y., & Weber, M. (2020). The Cost of the Covid-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending (Working Paper No. 27141; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27141
Li, L., Strahan, P. E., & Zhang, S. (2020). Banks as Lenders of First Resort: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis (Working Paper No. 27256; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27256
Ziedan, E., Simon, K. I., & Wing, C. (2020). Effects of State COVID-19 Closure Policy on NON-COVID-19 Health Care Utilization (Working Paper No. 27621; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27621
Hartley, J. S., & Rebucci, A. (2020). An Event Study of COVID-19 Central Bank Quantitative Easing in Advanced and Emerging Economies (Working Paper No. 27339; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27339
Chaudhuri, S., Lo, A. W., Xiao, D., & Xu, Q. (2020). Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials for Anti‐Infective Therapeutics during Epidemic Outbreaks (Working Paper No. 27175; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27175
Clemens, J., & Veuger, S. (2020). Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for State Government Tax Revenues (Working Paper No. 27426; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27426
Fairlie, R. W. (2020). The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey (Working Paper No. 27309; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27309
Çakmaklı, C., Demiralp, S., Kalemli-Özcan, Ṣebnem, Yesiltas, S., & Yildirim, M. A. (2020). COVID-19 and Emerging Markets: An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows (Working Paper No. 27191; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27191
Ray, D., & Subramanian, S. (2020). India’s Lockdown: An Interim Report (Working Paper No. 27282; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27282
Alfaro, L., Chari, A., Greenland, A. N., & Schott, P. K. (2020). Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time (Working Paper No. 26950; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26950
Costa, Pedro Nicolaci da. ‘The Covid-19 Crisis Has Wiped Out Nearly Half Of Black Small Businesses’. Forbes. Accessed 12 August 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2020/08/10/the-covid-19-crisis-has-wiped-out-nearly-half-of-black-small-businesses/.
Costa, Pedro Nicolaci da. ‘The Covid-19 Crisis Has Wiped Out Nearly Half Of Black Small Businesses’. Forbes. Accessed 12 August 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2020/08/10/the-covid-19-crisis-has-wiped-out-nearly-half-of-black-small-businesses/.
Coibion, O., Gorodnichenko, Y., & Weber, M. (2020). Labor Markets During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View (Working Paper No. 27017; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27017
Harris, J. E. (2020). Reopening Under COVID-19: What to Watch For (Working Paper No. 27166; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27166
Benmelech, E., & Tzur-Ilan, N. (2020). The Determinants of Fiscal and Monetary Policies During the Covid-19 Crisis (Working Paper No. 27461; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27461
Ding, W., Levine, R., Lin, C., & Xie, W. (2020). Corporate Immunity to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27055; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27055
Aum, S., Lee, S. Y. (Tim), & Shin, Y. (2020). Inequality of Fear and Self-Quarantine: Is There a Trade-off between GDP and Public Health? (Working Paper No. 27100; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27100
Dingel, J. I., & Neiman, B. (2020). How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home? (Working Paper No. 26948; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26948
Baqaee, D., & Farhi, E. (2020). Supply and Demand in Disaggregated Keynesian Economies with an Application to the Covid-19 Crisis (Working Paper No. 27152; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27152
Barnett, M., Buchak, G., & Yannelis, C. (2020). Epidemic Responses Under Uncertainty (Working Paper No. 27289; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27289
Bordo, M. D., Levin, A. T., & Levy, M. D. (2020). Incorporating Scenario Analysis into the Federal Reserve’s Policy Strategy and Communications (Working Paper No. 27369; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27369
Mulligan, C. B. (2020). Economic Activity and the Value of Medical Innovation during a Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27060; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27060
Bonadio, B., Huo, Z., Levchenko, A. A., & Pandalai-Nayar, N. (2020). Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27224; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27224
Jordà, Ò., Singh, S. R., & Taylor, A. M. (2020). Longer-run Economic Consequences of Pandemics (Working Paper No. 26934; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26934
Krueger, D., Uhlig, H., & Xie, T. (2020). Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic (Working Paper No. 27047; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27047
Giglio, S., Maggiori, M., Stroebel, J., & Utkus, S. (2020). Inside the Mind of a Stock Market Crash (Working Paper No. 27272; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27272
Gormsen, N. J., & Koijen, R. S. J. (2020). Coronavirus: Impact on Stock Prices and Growth Expectations (Working Paper No. 27387; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27387
Bodenhorn, Howard. ‘Business in a Time of Spanish Influenza’. Working Paper. Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27495.
Diebold, Francis X. ‘Real-Time Real Economic Activity: Exiting the Great Recession and Entering the Pandemic Recession’. Working Paper. Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27482.
Jones, Callum J, Thomas Philippon, and Venky Venkateswaran. ‘Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic: Social Distancing and Working from Home’. Working Paper. Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2020. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26984.
Stock, James H. ‘Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus’. Working Paper. Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2020. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26902.
Céspedes, L. F., Chang, R., & Velasco, A. (2020). The Macroeconomics of a Pandemic: A Minimalist Model (Working Paper No. 27228; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27228
Correa, R., Du, W., & Liao, G. Y. (2020). U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity (Working Paper No. 27491; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27491
Alstadsæter, A., Bratsberg, B., Eielsen, G., Kopczuk, W., Markussen, S., Raaum, O., & Røed, K. (2020). The First Weeks of the Coronavirus Crisis: Who Got Hit, When and Why? Evidence from Norway (Working Paper No. 27131; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27131
Newhouse, J. P. (2020). An Ounce of Prevention (Working Paper No. 27553; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27553
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Bethune, Z. A., & Korinek, A. (2020). Covid-19 Infection Externalities: Trading Off Lives vs. Livelihoods (Working Paper No. 27009; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27009
Goolsbee, A., & Syverson, C. (2020). Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020 (Working Paper No. 27432; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27432
Bracci, Alberto, Matthieu Nadini, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Damon McCoy, Ian Gray, Alexander Teytelboym, Angela Gallo, and Andrea Baronchelli. ‘The COVID-19 Online Shadow Economy’. ArXiv:2008.01585 [Physics], 6 August 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01585.
Germany’s Capacities to Work from Home. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 8, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13152/
Fairlie. R. W., (2020). The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey. Institute of Labor Economics.
Immigrant Key Workers: Their Contribution to Europe’s COVID-19 Response. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 7, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13178/
Economic Policies for COVID-19. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 7, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/pp156/
Baker, S. R., Bloom, N., Davis, S. J., & Terry, S. J. (2020). COVID-Induced Economic Uncertainty (Working Paper No. 26983; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26983
Pulejo, M., & Querubín, P. (2020). Electoral Concerns Reduce Restrictive Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27498; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27498
Elenev, V., Landvoigt, T., & Van Nieuwerburgh, S. (2020). Can the Covid Bailouts Save the Economy? (Working Paper No. 27207; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27207
Chetty, R., Friedman, J. N., Hendren, N., Stepner, M., & Team, T. O. I. (2020). How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data (Working Paper No. 27431; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27431
Lin, Z., & Meissner, C. M. (2020). Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19 (Working Paper No. 27099; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27099
Chatterji, P., & Li, Y. (2020). Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Outpatient Providers in the US (Working Paper No. 27173; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27173
The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 5, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13368/
Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 5, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13258/
The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-At-Home Orders. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 5, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13261/
An Economic Model of the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13265/
MikeFarb on Twitter: “What the he’ll is going on in the Stock Market. GDP dropped by 32.9%(a disastrous number)and over the last 3 trading days the NASDAQ is up over 300 Points! Never mind the Pandemic and Rampant Unemployment. https://t.co/e6aK5qJ5Lt” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://twitter.com/mikefarb1/status/1289524802550546432
If Sick-Leave Becomes More Costly, Will I Go Back to Work? Could It Be Too Soon?
If Sick-Leave Becomes More Costly, Will I Go Back to Work? Could It Be Too Soon?. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13379/
Partial Lockdown and the Spread of COVID-19: Lessons from the Italian Case. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13375/
Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved July 29, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13294/
Sudden Stop: When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of COVID-19?. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved July 29, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13457/
Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved July 29, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13463/
Labour Markets in the Time of Coronavirus: Measuring Excess. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved July 27, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13529/
Sims, E. R., & Wu, J. C. (2020). Wall Street vs. Main Street QE (Working Paper No. 27295; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27295
U.S. Economy Shrinks at Record 32.9% Pace in Second Quarter. (2020, July 30). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-30/u-s-economy-shrinks-at-record-32-9-pace-in-second-quarter
Brown, C. S., Ravallion, M., & van de Walle, D. (2020). Can the World’s Poor Protect Themselves from the New Coronavirus? (Working Paper No. 27200; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27200
Acemoglu, D., Chernozhukov, V., Werning, I., & Whinston, M. D. (2020). Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multi-Group SIR Model (Working Paper No. 27102; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27102
Bianchi, F., Faccini, R., & Melosi, L. (2020). Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Times of Large Debt: Unity is Strength (Working Paper No. 27112; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27112
Baqaee, D., Farhi, E., Mina, M. J., & Stock, J. H. (2020). Reopening Scenarios (Working Paper No. 27244; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27244
Friedson, A. I., McNichols, D., Sabia, J. J., & Dave, D. (2020). Did California’s Shelter-in-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects (Working Paper No. 26992; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26992
Cotti, C. D., Engelhardt, B., Foster, J., Nesson, E. T., & Niekamp, P. S. (2020). The Relationship between In-Person Voting and COVID-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin Primary (Working Paper No. 27187; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27187
Jinjarak, Y., Ahmed, R., Nair-Desai, S., Xin, W., & Aizenman, J. (2020). Pandemic Shocks and Fiscal-Monetary Policies in the Eurozone: COVID-19 Dominance During January - June 2020 (Working Paper No. 27451; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27451
Rojas, F. L., Jiang, X., Montenovo, L., Simon, K. I., Weinberg, B. A., & Wing, C. (2020). Is the Cure Worse than the Problem Itself? Immediate Labor Market Effects of COVID-19 Case Rates and School Closures in the U.S. (Working Paper No. 27127; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27127
Dave, D. M., Friedson, A. I., Matsuzawa, K., & Sabia, J. J. (2020). When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time (Working Paper No. 27091; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27091
Papanikolaou, D., & Schmidt, L. D. W. (2020). Working Remotely and the Supply-side Impact of Covid-19 (Working Paper No. 27330; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27330
Schmitt-Grohé, S., Teoh, K., & Uribe, M. (2020). Covid-19: Testing Inequality in New York City (Working Paper No. 27019; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27019
Cavallo, A. (2020). Inflation with Covid Consumption Baskets (Working Paper No. 27352; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27352
Aksoy, C. G., Eichengreen, B., & Saka, O. (2020). The Political Scar of Epidemics (Working Paper No. 27401; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27401
Caballero, R. J., & Simsek, A. (2020). A Model of Asset Price Spirals and Aggregate Demand Amplification of a (Working Paper No. 27044; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27044
Hall, R. E., Jones, C. I., & Klenow, P. J. (2020). Trading Off Consumption and COVID-19 Deaths (Working Paper No. 27340; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27340
Haddad, V., Moreira, A., & Muir, T. (2020). When Selling Becomes Viral: Disruptions in Debt Markets in the COVID-19 Crisis and the Fed’s Response (Working Paper No. 27168; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27168
Knittel, C. R., & Ozaltun, B. (2020). What Does and Does Not Correlate with COVID-19 Death Rates (Working Paper No. 27391; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27391
Alfaro, L., Becerra, O., & Eslava, M. (2020). EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms (Working Paper No. 27360; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27360
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Et si nous choisissions de jouer notre propre musique avec la gig Economy ? Selon l’auteur, la révolution numérique actuelle a engendré la « gig economy ». Une part de plus en plus importante de travailleurs indépendants( 35 % aux États-Unis, l’auteur ne le source pas) sont payés à la tâche via des plateformes numériques. La problématique est posée sous forme dialectique, la « gig economy », étant soit un nouveau paradigme économique, soit une régression vers un vieux modèle d'économie à la tâche du XIXème siècle mais mondialisé. Il démontre que les principaux effets bénéfiques de la « gig economy », entre autres la compétitivité des entreprises, la liberté des travailleurs sont contrebalancés par l’inadaptabilité du modèle de protection sociale actuel (basé sur un regroupement de travailleurs). Il conclue en affirmant que si les politiques ne prennent pas en compte cette évolution, inévitable selon certains prospectivistes, pour réformer le système de protection sociale, la gig economy ne serait finalement qu’une économie à la tâche mondialisée, qui laisserait les travailleurs dans l’insécurité et l’incertitude, les privant ainsi de tout projet de vie.
Et si, au contraire, l'évolution vers une économie à la tâche mondialisée était évitable ? En effet, le « néo » travailleur indépendant pourrait avoir une conscience de classe et bloquer ainsi cette évolution. L’auteur, dans ses arguments, oublie cet aspect là. Le futur modèle de protection pourrait naître de cette prise de conscience et de luttes car les acquis sociaux ne sont jamais octroyés.1
Qu’est-ce que la gig economy ?
Puisque l'auteur a posé sa problématique sous forme de raisonnement dialectique, la première proposition étant que la gig economy serait un nouveau pardigme économique, il va s'atteler sur quelques paragraphes à définir ce qu'elle est, ce qu'elle propose , son périmètre, et ses conséquences avant de conclure et répondre à sa question. Raisonnement rhétorique et dialectique. Il nous donne déjà un premier point de vue qui laisse présager de sa réponse en disant qu'aujourd'hui la gig economy ressemble plus à une cacophonie qu'à un concert de musique harmonieuse.
Au-delà de cette tendance de fond, ce sont de nouveaux modèles économiques et sociaux qui se mettent en place et qui nous rappellent l’économie à la tâche que nous avons déjà connue au XIXe siècle. Alors, retour vers le passé ou changement total de paradigme ?
C'est ici que se pose la question argumentative. L'auteur se demande si cette révolution numérique avec tous les changements sociaux et économiques qui vont avec, est en soi un nouvel équilibre (la gig economy) des forces économiques et sociales au sein de la société ou bien est-ce une régression vers un modèle d'économie à la tâche qui existait déjà au XIX ème siècle,mais qui serait cette fois-ci, généralisé au niveau mondial. . Nous avons donc ici la problématique posée sous forme dialectique. Je peux déjà mettre pro puisque la conclusion nous le confirmera.
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Daniel Markovits, author of “The Meritocracy Trap,” estimates there are about one million of these workers in America today. They work really hard, are really productive and earn a lot more. In the mid-1960s, profits per partner at elite law firms were less than five times a secretary’s salary. Now, Markovits notes, they are over 40 times.
That latter statistic is fascinating. Are top partners 8x more more productive (relatively) than secretaries? Maybe but probably not. There's more going on that the crude info economy argument of simply greater marginal productivity. I would also look at concentration of income across law firms - i bet there has been concentration towards the top firms.
But here’s the situation: The information economy rains money on highly trained professionals — doctors, lawyers, corporate managers, engineers and so on.
But why does it rain money on them? And who else does that?
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