According to the report "The pandemic and the labor market: What we know a year later", prepared by Susana Peralta, Bruno P. Carvalho and Mariana Esteves, from the Nova SBE Economics for Policy Knowledge Centre, "dismissal was the most common reason to stop working both in the second quarter of 2020 and in the first quarter of 2021, when the two general lockdowns due to the pandemic were decreed.” "From about 20% in the pre-pandemic period, this percentage rose to 25% in the second quarter of 2020 and in the first quarter of 2021". The report was developed under the Social Equity Initiative, of Nova SBE, Fundação la Caixa and BPI.