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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in automation as many employers seek to save on labor costs amid widespread illness, increased worker leverage, and market pressures to onshore supply chains. While existing research has explored how automation may displace nonspecialized jobs, there...
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This paper documents that the employment of Asian Americans with no college education has been especially hard hit by the economic crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. This cannot be explained by differences in demographics or in job characteristics. Asian American employment is also...
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to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity … estimate to the state-level Google Trends indexes for the topic "unemployment", we show that out-of-sample forecasts made ahead … the demand for unemployment insurance. In addition, we provide a robust assessment of the uncertainty surrounding these …
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We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...
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