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effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession on employment and unemployment rates by age group and sex using Current … Population Survey data. We calculate employment and unemployment rates multiple ways to account for the complicated employment … example, we find that unemployment rates in April 2020 increased to 15.43% for those ages 65 and older, compared to 12.99% for …
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Almost exactly two years ago COVID-19 spread to the United States. Following the federalism model, the 50 states and their governors and legislators made many of their own pandemic policy choices to mitigate the damage from the virus. States learned from one another over time about what policies...
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We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute … the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement … implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and July 2020, 76% of workers eligible for regular Unemployment …
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We use linked survey and administrative data to document and decompose the striking differences across demographic groups in both economic and health impacts of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The impacts of the pandemic on all-cause mortality and on employment were...
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France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy …
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This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
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