We examine the causal effects of a COVID-19 infection on hours worked and disability insurance (DI) take-up. We link Dutch administrative data on over 3 million individuals’ PCR tests in 2020 to labour market records spanning 2020-2023.
- Speaker
- Date
- Thursday 12 Dec 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- Kitchen/Lounge E1
- Building
- E Building
Employing an event-study differences-in-differences design, we exploit variation in the timing of infections during the beginning of the pandemic. Our results reveal a 40% immediate decline in hours worked two weeks after infection and a 6% increase in DI take-up two years later. This finding suggests a minimum incidence of 0.23% of severe long COVID among the working-age population infected early in the pandemic.
Registration
To participate, please send an email to: ae-secr@ese.eur.nl
