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This document provides an update on the use of job retention (JR) schemes during the COVID-19 crisis until the end of 2021 and takes stock of the different strategies employed by OECD governments to adjust them as the crisis evolved. It provides three key insights. First, since reaching a peak of 20% of employment in April/May 2020 on average across OECD countries, the use of JR support has declined to 1.3% in November/December 2021. Second, countries have used different approaches to adjust temporary JR provisions during the course of the crisis, with some phasing them out, some providing inc...

Business dynamism is key for creative destruction and to foster resource reallocation – both crucial elements of long-run economic growth. This column uses a new data visualisation tool to reveal large sector- and country-level heterogeneity in the impact on business dynamism of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 and in recovery. Initially, firm entry fell sharply in all countries,

Grapefruit: a stable factor in the fruit assortment

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on excess mortality varied widely both between and within five European countries in 2020.

“The Chinese Dream of Spain, 1845-1945” presented by Miguel de Cervantes Library-