COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since …

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since …

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …

Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics … indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as business cycle conditions worsen. Estimates also show that minorities … losing a job increased for minorities although cyclical sensitivity of the transition declined. Odds of becoming re …

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are … implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …