"Advanced economies could use more progressive income taxes, inheritance & property taxes, and taxes on "excess" corporate profits to help reduce inequalities exposed by the pandemic."
"Wealth taxes were another option if other measures did not suffice."
"Given that public support for better access to basic services, financed through higher taxes, has been strong and is likely rising with the pandemic, governments need to announce comprehensive policy packages,.., that give everyone a fair shot & strengthen trust in governments."
"Large preexisting inequalities have worsened the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, while the crisis, in turn, has escalated these inequalities."
"COVID-19 recovery contributions and 'excess' corporate profits taxes could be considered"
1. The #MomentumQuarterly Best Paper Award 2021 goes to Heinar Heiland (@TUDarmstadt) and Simon Schaupp (@UniBasel_en@UniBasel) for their article "Digital atomisation or new labour struggles? Resistant solidarity cultures in platform-mediated courier work".
2. The #MomentumQuarterly Impact Award 2021 goes to Karin Fischer (@jkulinz) and Bernhard Leubolt (@KatholischeSZ) for their article "On the way to more equality? Social policy in Brazil and Chile after the 'shift to the left'".
Yesterday, I presented on the #COVID19 employment crisis and trade union involvement in tackling the effects at the @ETUI_org to participants from Spain (@UGT_Comunica), Italy (@CislNazionale) & Slovenia(@z_s_s_s). Thanks for the invitation @ValericadD!
My key points 1/..
Employment composition matters for vulnerability to the #COVID19 crisis.
Countries with a higher share of jobs concentrated in industries stronger affected and with a higher share of non-standard employment are generally more vulnerable. oecd.org/economic-outlo…
Employment is affected unevenly across occupations & the wage distribution.
In this week’s @DSPI_Oxford#Supertracker Newsletter, @eliasnau introduces four of the largest #COVID19 survey that have collected data of tens of thousands of respondents around the globe. All four rely on snowball sampling & two provide open access to the individual level data.
1. The COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey by @lieberothdk covers the period between March 26 and May 30 and provides information of more than 120,000 respondents from 178 countries. 25 countries have more than 1,000 respondents. The individual level data is available online (open access)
2. @eurofound's survey, Living, working and COVID-19 examined quality of life & society. The 1st round took place in April, and the 2nd in July . The survey covers the EU27 countries and provides information from 63,354 respondents in round 1 and 24,123 respondents in round 2.
Did you know that the Oxford #Supertracker is not only a directory of policy trackers but also collects surveys worldwide related to the #Corona crisis? Our survey editor @eliasnau has documented relevant sources. Today's update doubles the number of surveys covered to 64. 1/..
Data are structured by sampling method (probability sampling, quota sampling, snowball sampling). You can filter by country coverage, time coverage, interval of data collection, microdata from pre-COVID etc. supertracker.spi.ox.ac.uk/surveys/
The amount of #COVID19 related research being produced within the last days is impressive and it’s hard to keep track. Several projects at OECD, WBG, Oxford, ETUC are tracking policy responses across countries. This thread collects various sources. Please add any other! 👇👇1/..