ABSTRACT
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have imposed a wide variety of entry restrictions on international travel. Historical cases illustrate that public health concerns based on entrenched prejudices toward immigrant communities have led to restrictive measures against migration from foreign countries. Using our new dataset, COVID-19 Travel Restrictions and Categories, we examine whether Chinese migrant networks around the world have driven government decisions to bar the entry of Chinese nationals and travelers from China in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our survival analysis of China-specific travel restrictions from January to March 2020 shows that not all Chinese migrant networks were important determinants. We find that entry bans on travel from China emerged more quickly in countries where a large number of temporary Chinese migrants work in clustered sites of Chinese contracted projects.
ABSTRACT
The condition of consumer behavior of ethnic Chinese mothers in Indonesia, which has experienced significant changes due to the increasingly massive Covid-19 pandemic, uses the marketplace as a shopping medium. This condition has encouraged commercial growth and economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic. In this case, the growth of the modern market that attracts a large number of customers causes consumer purchasing decisions to be more spontaneous. This study aims to analyze the ability of positive emotions to mediate the relationship between the influence of shopping style, social factors, and sales promotion on online impulse buying. This research is exploratory quantitative research that uses purposive sampling in the sampling process. The criteria for the desired respondents are ethnic Chinese mothers who have purchased products online more than 7 times. This study's sample number was 1,357 respondents with data analysis techniques using path analysis (SEM). The analysis results show that there is a direct influence of shopping style, social factors, sales promotion on positive emotions and online impulse buying. This study also revealed that positive emotions were able to mediate the relationship between the influence of shopping style, social factors, and sales promotion on online impulse buying. © 2022, SRAC - Romanian Society for Quality. All rights reserved.