Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228410 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM11/20
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
We nowcast the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and related lock-down measures in the UK and then analyse the distributional and budgetary effects of the estimated individual income shocks, distinguishing between the effects of automatic stabilisers and those of the emergency policy responses. Under conservative assumptions about the exit strategy and recovery phase, we predict that the rescue package will increase the cost of the crisis for the public budget by an additional £26 billion, totalling over £60 billion. However, it will allow to contain the reduction in the average household disposable income to 1 percentage point, and will reduce poverty rate by 1.1 percentage points (at a constant poverty line), with respect to the pre-Covid situation. We also show that this progressive effect is due to the increased generosity of Universal Credit, which accounts for only 20% of the cost of the rescue package.
Subjects: 
Covid-19
Job Retention scheme
Self-employment Income Support Scheme
Universal Credit
poverty
public budget
JEL: 
D31
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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