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标题：Preserving job matches during the Covid-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence on the role of government aid
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作者：Morten Bennedsen ; Berthe Larsen ; Ian M. Schmutte 等
期刊名称：CEP Occasional Paper
出版年度：2020
卷号：2020
期号：51
语种：English
出版社：Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
摘要：We analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policies on firms' aid takeup, layoff and furlough decisions. We collect new survey data for 10,642 small, medium and large Danish firms, and match to government records of all aid-supported furloughed workers during the pandemic as well as administrative accounting data. This is the first representative sample of firms reporting the pandemic's impact on their revenue and labor choices, showing a steep decline in revenue and a strong reported effect of labor aid take-up on lower job separations. Relative to a normal year, 30 percent more firms have experienced revenue declines. Comparing firms' actual layoff and furlough decisions to their reported counterfactual decisions in the absence of aid, we estimate 81,000 fewer workers were laid off and 285,000 workers were furloughed. Our results suggest the aid policy was effective in preserving job matches at the start of the pandemic.