The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Impact upon Companies from Bihor County
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Impact upon Companies from Bihor County

Author(s): Ciprian-Beniamin Benea, Adrian Negrea, Adina Sacara Onita
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Bihor county; COVID-19; Kurzarbeit; Subsidies
Summary/Abstract: As the pandemic force started to affect the whole world in the first part of 2020, Romania’s economy and society made no exception; as the paper shortly presents the effects and perspectives brought by this pandemic upon humankind, the main focus of the paper is a region in Romania, Bihor county, respectively. It presents how COVID-19 influenced normal economic-social activity, and the way the Romanian government reacted to this global problem, through different instruments, such as subsidies. The main purpose of this article is to present the way COVID-19 affected a region in an Eastern European country and the way the Romanian government searched for a solution in order to reduce the negative influences of this plague. The main method of analysis is based on statistical data collected by and from a regional employment agency from Bihor county (AJOFM-Bihor).

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