The Income and Consumption Effects of COVID‐19 and the Role of Public Policy

Suphanit Piyapromdee and Peter Spittal

Fiscal Studies, 2020, vol. 41, issue 4, 805-827

Abstract: We provide empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of COVID‐19 in the UK and assess the effectiveness of mitigation policies. We estimate the relationship between employment outcomes and occupational and industrial characteristics and assess the effects on consumption. Seventy per cent of households in the bottom fifth of the earnings distribution hold insufficient assets to maintain current spending for more than one week. We compare the effectiveness of the UK's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and of Economic Impact Payments in the US. The EIPs are more effective at mitigating consumption reductions as they have full coverage, depend on household structure and are higher for low‐income workers.

Date: 2020
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