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Multiple Mediation of the Meaning of the Law

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  • Hurwitz, Joshua

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Dominant narratives about the early COVID-19 pandemic suggest that state-enacted policies, particularly “lockdowns,” played a significant role in the widespread transition to remote work that was observed in April 2020. In this paper, I develop Edelman’s theory on the organizational role in interpreting laws, arguing that lockdowns were highly ambiguous policies that gave incredible latitude to private employers to determine appropriate measures of compliance. Using two novel datasets of state regulations and individual-level patterns of work, I show that lockdowns had a modest effect on remote work, furlough, and unemployment. Employers instead relied on cultural cues to determine their response.

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  • Hurwitz, Joshua, 2023. "Multiple Mediation of the Meaning of the Law," OSF Preprints 6fgy9, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:6fgy9
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/6fgy9
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