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Across Europe and Canada, many governments are easing the plight of workers idled because of the Covid-19 pandemic by essentially paying part of their salaries, says Gabriel Zucman, a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
"What it means is that people remain on the books. ... They keep receiving their salaries," Zucman says. "And when social distancing ends, they will just return to work, as if they had been on a long, government-paid leave."
It's much more humane than in the United States, where some 22 million workers have lost their jobs over the past four weeks, Zucman says. Under the American system, workers are typically fired. They file for unemployment benefits and have to look for new work, he says. Many risk losing their health insurance benefits altogether.
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