The COVID-19 pandemic caused severe losses in the world economy, particularly in emerging market economies (EMEs), which had to withstand the challenges of the pandemic and its domestic repercussions while also facing the deterioration of external demand. Using a panel data model, we estimate...

I study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formal employment of entrants from each post-Great Recession year. Using longitudinal Mexican social security records and an individual fixed-effects difference-in-differences design, I find that the pandemic caused more recent entrants from...