Literature review on selected political economy issues of the Covid-19 crisis

Hočevar, Marko (author)

This article aims to explore the emerging literature concerned with the politico--economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and to present various insights and data about the ongoing processes. This literature review article: (i) provides an overview of various job retention schemes; (ii) reviews the literature on the transformation of work within the context of teleworking; and (iii) summarises the findings about the COVID-19 crisis’ impact on income and gender (in)equality. While the presented literature provides well-arranged empirical insights into the COVID-19 crisis, it (mostly) fails to situate these changes in the longue durée of constant changes in the capitalist mode of production.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Znanstvena in strokovna literatura, Ekonomija, Covid-19, Družbena neenakost, Gospodarski liberalizem, Delo na daljavo
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.06.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 129-154
• Numbering: Letn. 38, št. 99
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-139918
• UDC: [316.334.2:338.124.4]:[616.98-036.21:578.834]
• ISSN on article: 0352-3608
• COBISS.SI-ID: 111225091
• Publication date in RUL: 08.09.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Družboslovne razprave
• Shortened title: Družbosl. razpr.
• Publisher: Slovensko sociološko društvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0352-3608
• COBISS.SI-ID: 7530242

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Namen članka je raziskati nastajajočo literaturo o politično-ekonomskih učinkih krize COVID-19 ter predstaviti različna spoznanja in podatke o tekočih procesih. Pregledni članek ponuja: (i) pregled različnih shem ohranjanja delovnih mest; (ii) pregled literature o preoblikovanju dela v kontekstu dela na daljavo; (iii) povzetek ugotovitev o vplivu krize COVID-19 na dohodkovno neenakost in neenakost spolov. Predstavljena literatura ponuja veliko empiričnih vpogledov glede krize COVID-19, vendar teh sprememb (praviloma) ne umesti v longue durée nenehnih sprememb kapitalističnega produkcijskega načina.

• Keywords: Scientific and professional literature, Economics, Covid-19, Social inequality, Economic liberalism, Remote work

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: Z5-3221-2021
• Name: Spreminjajoča se vloga države: država in politike zaposlovanja v kontekstu krize COVID-19