Productivity and the pandemic: challenges and insights from Covid-19

Publication type

Book

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Publication date

January 19, 2021

Summary:

This forward-thinking book examines the potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on productivity. Productivity and the Pandemic features 21 chapters authored by 46 experts, examining different aspects of how the pandemic is likely to impact on the economy, society and governance in the medium- and long-term. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, analytical arguments and new conceptual insights, the book challenges our thinking on many dimensions. With a keen focus on place, firms, production factors and institutions, the chapters highlight how the pre-existing challenges to productivity have been variously exacerbated and mitigated by the pandemic and points out ways forward for appropriate policy thinking in response to the crisis.

An important read for scholars and students interested in the impact of the pandemic, this book will also be an invigorating read for economists and policy makers looking for more information on how the pandemic and resulting economic recession is affecting productivity.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374607

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Link

https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/productivity-and-the-pandemic-9781800374591.html

Notes

Not held in Hilary Doughty Research Library - bibliographic reference only

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