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Preferences through Twitter
People's deep preferences can affect economic growth, hamper economic recovery, and hinder social cohesion. This project aims to provide timely information about the change in people's preferences and attitudes due to the COVID19 crisis. We apply sentiment analysis to data sourced from social media, such as Twitter, to provide real-time data on ongoing social change. We propose to focus on the following aspects: life satisfaction, mental stress, trust in others and in institutions, loneliness, uncertainty about the future, populism and feelings towards globalization. We will aggregate the ...
Young People and COVID-19 (YAC) - Social, Economic, and Health Consequences of Infection Preventi...
Whereas adolescents and young adults are less affected by severe progressions of COVID-19, the measures to prevent and control the infection interfere disproportionally with their development. There are short-term and long-term impacts on their educational and professional careers and their psycho-social development (gaining autonomy from parents, building relationships). Non-intended negative social, economic and health consequences by the measures taken to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic are therefore particularly likely for young people. It is important to identify and understa...
COVID-19 related economic implications in Luxembourg: services industry robustness and commercial...
The proposed project seeks to understand crucial short- and medium-term economic impacts on and strategies of Luxembourg's commercial real estate industry (offices, hotels, large retail) as a proxy for its services industries' crisis resilience. Luxembourg is a small but open economy. The finance and advanced business services (FABS) are strategic industries and main contributors to Luxembourg's GDP. Close links between FABS firms (business ties, finance relationships) can amplify shocks in Luxembourg's economy. The likely damage done to the finance sector depends also on how flexible real...
An Experimental test of Hospital Admission Guidelines
The project consists in an anonymous survey experiment on hospital guidelines during pandemics, such as those indicated by the Commission Nationale D'Ethique. Hospital guidelines are there to regulate admissions and treatment in case of congestion. Such guidelines, however, are rarely discussed in the media and most people are unlikely to be familiar with them. We propose to ask respondents whether they agree or not with the ethical principles of such guidelines and which ethical principles they would favor the most. In particular, we ask them to read a number of hypothetical scenarios on ...
Digital upskilling in a telework environment
Analyzing, understanding and determining the influence of the current health crisis on firms' productivity and workers' well-being for activities that can be perform via telework is essential to support the workforce for the current and future economic challenges, and turn them into opportunities. Indeed, in parallel with the current COVID-19 health crisis, the labour market is undergoing profound changes linked to the digital transformation, which will increase in the future (i.e. job replacement, new tasks to require digital skills). An increased use of digital tools at the workplace is n...
Occupational Sorting of Employees after the Lockdown
In this project we ask the following research question: What is the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on workers' sectoral and occupational allocation, wage inequality and unemployment across European regions and countries? Our goal is to quantify the labor market implications of partial annihilation of selected sectors of economic activity. By simulating scenarios of different degree of severity, we compute changes in workers' assignment to jobs, unemployment measures, and final production across sectors of regional and national economies. Our study is targeted at identifying those segments of l...
Socio-economic impacts of COVID-19: collecting the data
The aim of this project is to investigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19, including employment, activity and travel patterns, health behaviours and health. The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing in Luxembourg and neighbouring countries. It is currently hoped that due to confinement measures the number of infected persons and deaths will decline in the near future. Public authorities in Luxembourg are considering to relieve the confinement measures to 'unlock' parts of economic and social life in the country as soon as the pandemic is becoming less severe and more 'manageable'. As Lu...
Middle generation and middle class before the post-covid19 recession, Income, wealth and health i...
Young-mid-aged adults (YMAA) - typically in the first decades of their entry in the labour market - make strategic choices in a context of uncertainty, such as home ownership, debt and saving balance, and wealth strategies, which have strong impacts in the long run. Before covid19, apart from the 2008 financial crisis, relative stability, easier access to credit, and the rapid growth of the housing index (with different magnitudes across countries) favored home ownership; early investment (through debt) favored capital gains. The later the decision to buy, the smaller the surface a househol...
