employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600-311,000, and …

unemployment. This link becomes more evident when wage inflation is disaggregated at sectoral and occupational levels. Using … exogenous variations in local market unemployment as the main identification strategy, a negative correlation between vacancy …-level wage and unemployment is also established. The correlation magnitude, however, is different across regions and skill …