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decline in employment in recent months as well as declines in consumer spending. While lockdowns have pronounced effects on …
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, expect more difficulties for their businesses going forward. Consequently, such firms are first to cut employment and …
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds the path for measured unemployment, depending on the...
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difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of … pandemic significantly reduced the probability of continued active employment for previous workers in both food manufacturing … market is a strong and significant factor. The employment changes are not just due to unemployment during facility closures …
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The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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age, ethnicity, education, family structure, income in 2019, current employment status, place of residence or living in …
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80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of … those waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that the labour market might rebound quickly …
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We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size …. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much … larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses manifest as increased unemployment, labor force withdrawal, and …
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This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i … employment. …
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