Resilience to health shocks and the spatial extent of local labour markets: evidence from the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy

Borsati, Mattia; Cascarano, Michele; Percoco, Marco

doi:10.1080/00343404.2022.2035708

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“…First, in distinguishing between the resident and worker populations of neighbourhoods, we are able to unpack the channels through which urban density facilitates the spread of the virus across neighbourhoods through social and economic interactions. Thus we contribute to the emerging literature documenting the critical role played by industrial and employment densities in spreading the virus (Almagro and Orane-Hutchinson 2022;Ascani et al 2021a;Di Porto et al 2022), and recent studies on the role of labour mobility on the spread of COVID-19 (Ascani et al 2021b;Borsati et al 2023), by providing first evidence of the differential impact of the local labour structure on COVID-19 transmission with respect to where people live and where they work, which has so far received limited attention. This also distinguishes this paper from recent work by Almagro et al (2023), using cell-phone mobility data to study the effect of greater out-of-home mobility and within-home crowding on the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization.…”

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“…Similarly, the lockdown strategy introduced in Italy at the beginning of the first wave has been shown to have reduced the spread of the virus away from provinces that were first hit (Bourdin et al 2021). Complementary evidence is offered by the recent strand of research looking specifically at the relationship between labour mobility and the spread of COVID-19, pointing to a significant role of individuals' mobility as well as the position of municipalities within a network of commuting flows on disease transmission and depth of the shock (Ascani et al 2021b;Borsati et al 2023). After the onset of the pandemic, the role played by density was not shaped solely by policy.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…2021b; Borsati et al . 2023), by providing first evidence of the differential impact of the local labour structure on COVID‐19 transmission with respect to where people live and where they work, which has so far received limited attention. This also distinguishes this paper from recent work by Almagro et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

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Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID‐19: within‐city evidence from England

Corradini,

Matheson,

Vanino

2024

Economica

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We estimate the importance of local labour structure in the spread of COVID‐19 during the first year of the pandemic. We build a unique dataset across 6791 English neighbourhoods that distinguishes between people living (residents) and people working (workers) in a neighbourhood, and differentiate between jobs that can be done from home (homeworkers), jobs that likely continued on‐site (keyworkers), and non‐essential on‐site jobs. We find that a 10 percentage points increase in keyworker jobs among residents is associated with 3.15 more cases per 1000 (4.8% relative to the mean), while a 10 percentage points increase in homeworker jobs among residents is associated with a decrease of 7.74 cases per 1000 (11.8% relative to the mean). Results for the composition of workers show the same sign, but smaller magnitudes. A dynamic analysis of the monthly incidence of reported cases shows that these relationships are particularly strong during lockdown periods. These results are heterogeneous across neighbourhoods, with larger positive effect of keyworkers, and lower protective effect of homeworkers, in higher deprivation areas. We explore the role of occupation skill intensity in driving these neighbourhood differences. These findings highlight important asymmetries in the distributional impact of the policy response to COVID‐19.

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Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID‐19: within‐city evidence from England

Corradini,

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Vanino

2024

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“…They also affirm the correlation between epidemic distribution and economic factors. Borsati et al (2023) investigate the link between worker mobility and disease spread, demonstrating that a reduction in commuting could have substantially decreased the number of deaths during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020. Cerqua and Letta (2022) employ machine learning to show that the economic repercussions of the pandemic varied widely across Italy, independent of the epidemiological trends during the first wave.…”

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Pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments

Daniele,

Martinangeli,

Passarelli

et al. 2024

Economica

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We investigate the causal nexus between pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments. We exploit the disruption brought about by the Covid‐19 outbreak to randomly provide survey respondents with information on the economic or health consequences of the pandemic. Overall, we find that pessimistic information about the economic outlook reinforces overall adversity to immigration and the wish to exclude immigrants from access to healthcare. This effect is less pronounced in areas with larger immigrant populations. Our theoretical model pins down two possible mechanisms explaining these results: a zero‐sum game to split scarce public resources between residents and immigrants on the one hand, and on the other, fear of contagion.

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“…With the growing interest in explaining the causes and consequences of crises on regions, regional studies have progressively used the concept of resilience (Davies 2011 ; Bathelt et al 2013 ; Eraydın 2013 , 2016 ; Dijkstra et al 2015 ; Crescenzi et al 2016 ; Cuadrado-Roura et al 2016 ; Martin et al 2016 ; Doğruel et al 2018 ; Brinks and Ibert 2020 ; Gong et al 2020 ; Houston 2020 ; Kapitsinis 2020 ; Klimanov et al 2020 ; Goschin and Constantin 2021 ; Tupy et al 2020 ; Borsati et al 2022 ; Kim et al 2022 ; Li et al 2022 ).…”

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Economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Turkey: analysis of vulnerability and resilience of regions and diversely affected economic sectors

2022

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The COVID-19 outbreak has deeply affected the global economy of most countries and Turkey is no exception. However, the impacts of the outbreak differ on a regional basis, and both scientists and policymakers have neglected this regional differentiation. In an attempt to redress this situation, our study aimed to reveal the regional disparities related to the economic impacts of the outbreak and the dynamics that created this differentiation in Turkey. Our statistical analyses were carried out based on two different periods. The first period covered the first trimester when the outbreak began, and several shutdowns were implemented. The second period covered the second trimester when society began to open up again. The first trimester was termed the shock period, and the second trimester the recovery period. We developed a resilient–vulnerability index based on selected variables such as employment, energy consumption, exports, and the number of companies established and closed using a location quotient (LQ) analysis. While our index offers a picture of resilient and vulnerable regions, we also used this index as a dependent variable in our study. In the second stage, we focused on what kinds of dynamics gave rise to the resilience or vulnerability of a region. Our findings revealed that regions are economically affected by the outbreak at different levels. The regression analysis results showed that the innovation capacity and export levels of the regions predict regional resilience negatively, while firm size predicts positively. The recovery of regions also differed regionally. Our analyses show that Turkish regions with relatively larger economies recover more slowly, while regions with smaller economies recover more quickly.

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Resilience to health shocks and the spatial extent of local labour markets: evidence from the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy

Cited by 5 publications

References 58 publications

Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID‐19: within‐city evidence from England

Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID‐19: within‐city evidence from England

Pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments

Economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Turkey: analysis of vulnerability and resilience of regions and diversely affected economic sectors

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