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COVID-19, Working from Home and the Potential Reverse Brain Drain
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a substantial increase in the prevalence of working from home among white-collar occupations. This can have important implications for the future of the workplace and quality of life. We discuss an additional implication, which we label reverse brain drain: the possibility that white-collar migrant workers return to live in their countries of origin while continuing to work for employers in their countries of destination. We estimate the potential size of this reverse flow using data from the European Labor Force Survey. Our estimates suggest that the UK, France, Switzerland and Germany each have around half a million skilled migrants who could perform their jobs from their home countries. Most of them originate from the other EU member states: both old and new. We discuss the potential economic, social and political implications of such reverse brain drain.
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Dvoynikova A., Маркитантов М. В., Рюмина Е. В. et al., Информатика и автоматизация (Труды СПИИРАН) 2021 Т. 20 № 5 С. 1116–1152
Начиная с 2019 года все страны мира столкнулись со стремительным распространением пандемии, вызванной коронавирусной инфекцией COVID-19, борьба с которой продолжается мировым сообществом и по настоящее время. Несмотря на очевидную эффективность средств индивидуальной защиты органов дыхания от заражения коронавирусной инфекцией, многие люди пренебрегают использованием защитных масок для лица в общественных местах. Поэтому для контроля и своевременного ...
Added: April 24, 2026
Салагай О. О., Сахарова Г. М., Антонов Н. С. et al., Общественное здоровье 2024 Т. 4 № 4 С. 4–15
Introduction. The study is devoted to the analysis of the dynamics of the tobacco and alcohol use prevalence among the adult population during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The purpose of the study: to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of tobacco and nicotine-containing products consumption among the adult population of the Russian Federation, men and ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Салагай О. О., Сахарова Г. М., Антонов Н. С. et al., Общественное здоровье 2022 Т. 2 № 2 С. 29–39
The fight against the COVID‑19 pandemic has led to the implementation of unprecedented measures in countries, including self-isolation, which have had a significant impact on people’s behavior and could lead to a change in the consumption of tobacco and nicotine-containing products. This article provides an overview of studies evaluating smoking behavior change and its impact ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., / Series Econometrics "arxiv". 2026.
This paper proposes Covariate-Balanced Weighted Stacked Difference-in-Differences (CBWSDID), a design-based extension of weighted stacked DID for settings in which untreated trends may be conditionally rather than unconditionally parallel. The estimator separates within-subexperiment design adjustment from across-subexperiment aggregation: matching or weighting improves treated-control comparability within each stacked subexperiment, while the corrective stacked weights of Wing et ...
Added: April 3, 2026
Karacharovskiy V., ЭКО 2026 Т. 56 № 2 С. 85–108
The article introduces the concept of sovereign human capital as a form of human capital that meets the needs of a sovereign economy. The criteria for assessing the SCC are proposed and justified from the point of view of: (1) unwillingness to "drain" within the migration processes, (2) spatial allocation ensuring the connectivity of the ...
Added: March 24, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Islentyeva Anna, Scheffler T., Discourse and Communication 2024 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 216–243
This paper represents a comparative study that explores the governmental vaccine advertising campaigns that were authorised by two English-speaking and two German-speaking countries – namely Australia, Britain, Austria and Germany – within the context of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The data set in question comprises 40 vaccination posters issued by each country’s respective government between ...
Added: March 9, 2026
Bilqis L. C., Shishkina A., Journal of Globalization Studies 2025 Vol. 16 No. 2 P. 169–179
This article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of digital nomadism in the period after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated the trend on transformation of many aspects of life, including labor market, due to digitalization. The authors discuss the significance of this phenomenon in the context of the intensified ...
Added: February 25, 2026
Semenova M., Loginova Y., Balsevich A. A., Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 2026 Vol. 97 Article 103118
This paper examines the effect of board gender diversity on bank performance during the COVID-19 crisis. Using a panel dataset of 173 European banks spanning the period 2010–2022, we find that the presence of female directors on bank boards is positively associated with profitability and solvency during the pandemic period. The positive impact is more ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Vorchik A., Мамышев М. А., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2025.
In this paper, we develop a formal mathematical model aimed to explain the Dunning-Kruger effect that beginners systematically overestimate their own competence in various fields of knowledge and activity. We argue that the Dunning-Kruger effect arises from the emotional nature of confidence combined with unknown unknowns that it simply can not take into account due ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Orlando G., Bufalo M., Nazarova V., Population Health Metrics 2025 Vol. 23 Article 71
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted vulnerable populations, such as low-income households, exacerbating existing health and economic challenges. In Cuba, the crisis exposed the effects of long-standing economic difficulties, worsened by sanctions, but the country’s robust public health system and independent vaccine development enabled an effective response. This study addresses the gap in understanding how ...
Added: February 3, 2026
Antsygina A., Teteryatnikova M., Tremewan J. C. et al., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2025.
Many competitive environments allow for a third party to be indirectly involved by supporting one or both sides in the conflict. Such support can come from trade partners, colleagues, or allies, who can in turn benefit from a supported party's success. We use theory and an experiment to investigate how support relationships develop endogenously in ...
Added: January 31, 2026
Volkovskii D., Olga Filatova, , in: 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2025). Volume 26Vol. 26.: Delft: [б.и.], 2025.
Deliberation is a basic term about reaching a decision through balanced discussion, which openly raises the issues of consensus and its achievement through communication. The current article aims at studying the quality of online deliberation between citizens and Russian authorities on social media in the conditions of global health crisis COVID-19. Indeed, the quality of ...
Added: January 25, 2026
Akhmedova A., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
The study explores a psychological phenomenon of inaction inertia-avoiding action after missing a more favourable opportunity. Unlike action inertia (e.g.,sunk costs effect), inaction inertia has been less studied, particularly in economic contexts. Considering the reference dependent nature of the phenomenon, I build on the work of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006) to examine how past experiences ...
Added: January 23, 2026
Kuchumova (Paramonova) Y. A., Ozhegova A., Зорина К. С., / Series SSRN "Available at SSRN 6108727". 2026.
Simplified tax regimes with explicit eligibility thresholds are a common tool which reduces tax burden but distorts firms’ behavior, creating local bunching just below the threshold. However, we show that when firms have access to business splitting their responses extend far beyond the local margin. Our model demonstrates that splitting reduces local bunching but amplifies ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Kuchumova (Paramonova) Y. A., Кумачева С. Ш., / Series SSRN "Available at SSRN 5312100". 2025.
In recent years, an emerging body of empirical research has shown that tax audits, in addition to recovering unpaid taxes (direct effect), increase future tax compliance (indirect or dynamic effect). This literature also suggests that updating expectations induced by audit experience plays an important role in explaining this indirect effect. However, exactly how taxpayers form ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Kuchumova (Paramonova) Y. A., / Series SSRN "Available at SSRN 5277500". 2025.
While the emerging empirical literature shows that collateral tax sanctions (CTSs) - such as driver’s license suspensions or passport denials - appear to be effective instruments to enforce tax debt collection, there are still few theoretical arguments to explain why. In this paper, I model enforcement of tax debt collection and provide a new rationale for why it could ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Dobrynskaya V. V., Tomtosov A., Речмедина С., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP 60/FE/2017 "SERIES: FINANCIAL ECONOMICS". 2025.
We study the application of factor investing in the market for real estate (REITs). The analysis of traditional factor strategies, such as momentum, value, size and profitability, reveals their unstable and atypical behavior in comparison to the equity market, however, there is a strong momentum effect in the factor strategies. We propose a new dynamic ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Monahhova E., Morozova A., Bredikhin D. et al., Neuroimage 2026 Vol. 327 Article 121727
Advances in deepfake technology raise concerns about disinformation spread. Novel deepfake technologies make it increasingly difficult to distinguish between real and fake media content. The current study investigated how speakers’ credibility, the participants’ traits and attitudes may influence the brain processing of audio deepfakes arguing for and against COVID-19 vaccination. We analyzed the electroencephalograms (EEGs) ...
Added: January 16, 2026
Сыченко Е. В., Чихачев А. Ю., Журнал зарубежного законодательства и сравнительного правоведения 2022 Т. 18 № 4 С. 72–82
This article explores the system of legal regulation of labor relations in France at the present stage. The main focus is on the analysis of the 2017 reform launched by the President Emmanuel Macron, as well as on the measures to protect the labour market taken in 2020-2022 in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The ...
Added: January 7, 2026
Besstremyannaya G., Bakshuk M., / ЦЭМИ РАН. Серия 48 заседание "Сборник трудов Шаталинской школы-семинара". 2026.
В данной статье рассматривается реакция российских предприятий обрабатывающей промышленности на ужесточение экономических санкций с акцентом на период после 2022 года. Хотя санкции в целом негативно сказываются на экономическом росте и эффективности деятельности компаний, есть некоторые свидетельства того, что они также могут подталкивать компании к инновациям, а негативный эффект преодолевается при помощи адаптации компании. Исследование заполняет ...
Added: December 31, 2025
Besstremyannaya G., Новикова В., / ЦЭМИ РАН. Серия 48 заседание "Сборник трудов Шаталинской школы-семинара". 2026.
Защита прав интеллектуальной собственности является движущей
силой для формирования стимулов инновационной активности
предприятий. Законодательное закрепление правил пользования
результатами интеллектуальной деятельности и обеспечение их соблюдения
позволяет поддерживать баланс интересов создателей и пользователей
интеллектуальной
собственности.
Целью
проанализировать недостаточно изученную для регионов России связь
между экономическим ростом и защитой прав интеллектуальной
собственности с использованием двухшаговой регрессии. Результаты
моделирования оказались неоднозначными, однако, было доказано наличие
значимой связи между защитой прав интеллектуальной ...
Added: December 31, 2025