Table 1.
Case study countries’ welfare level, infection rate per 100,000, and unemployment dynamics in the study period, March–June 2020
| Czech Republic | Estonia | Finland | Germany | Hungary | Italy | Lithuania | Norway | Portugal | The Netherlands | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | Unemployment | Infection | |
| March | 2.1 | 28.2 | 4.8 | 53.9 | 6.7 | 23.7 | 3.8 | 74.5 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 8.5 | 167.1 | 6.6 | 17.3 | 3.6 | 79.2 | 6.2 | 62.4 | 2.9 | 68.0 |
| April | 2.2 | 43.0 | 6.0 | 71.8 | 7.3 | 65.1 | 4.0 | 117.1 | 4.1 | 23.4 | 7.4 | 168.7 | 7.8 | 31.9 | 4.1 | 64.6 | 6.3 | 177.9 | 3.4 | 156.5 |
| May | 2.4 | 15.5 | 7.0 | 15.0 | 8.0 | 34.8 | 4.2 | 26.9 | 4.8 | 11.2 | 8.7 | 48.2 | 8.5 | 10.6 | 4.6 | 14.0 | 5.9 | 73.1 | 3.6 | 43.1 |
| June | 2.7 | 24.2 | 8.0 | 9.2 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 4.3 | 15.4 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 9.4 | 12.9 | 8.8 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 8.3 | 7.3 | 94.5 | 4.3 | 22.9 |
| Welfare level | 19.2 | 17.7 | 29.1 | 25.9 | 18.1 | 28.2 | 16.7 | 25.3 | 22.6 | 28.9 | ||||||||||
Source: authors.