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Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Cornell experts on coronavirus - Impact on the economy and industries

March 26, 2020

Experts at Cornell University are available to discuss the coronavirus in terms of its many impacts on economic productivity, inequalities as well as specific disruptions to various industries. 

Alexander Colvin
Louis Hyman
Associate Professor of Economics at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Visiting senior scholar at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Nicolas Ziebarth
Andrew Novakovic
Miguel Gómez
Mary Jo Dudley
Kevin Kniffin
Richard Stup
senior research associate at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations
professor of history at Cornell University
Mildred E. Warner

Reduced hours, shared work could reduce trauma of mass layoffs

March 19, 2020

On Wednesday, as effects of the coronavirus pandemic started hitting the U.S. job market, the Senate approved an emergency stimulus package to help businesses avoid mass layoffs. Cornell University economists, Paul Davis and Ian Greer are available to discuss the package, in particular, the measures taken to control unemployment. They also offer some perspective on what businesses and the government could do to further ease the effects of massive layoffs.

senior research associate at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations