We use job vacancy data collected in real time by Burning Glass Technologies, as well as unemployment insurance (UI …) initial claims and the more traditional Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment data to study the impact of COVID-19 on … the labor market. Our job vacancy data allow us to track the economy at disaggregated geography and by detailed occupation …

We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the … sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional … shifts in demographics, occupation, industry, region, and the reason for unemployment jointly account for very little of the …