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In this article I set out to present the situation in terms of unemployment rate, the number of registered unemployed … but also the share of unemployed nationwide in the period 2020-2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate … state with a technical unemployment benefit, which led to the highest unemployment rate in the last two years, resulting in …
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In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved over most of the year 2020. Relying primarily on microdata from the CPS and state-level data on virus caseloads, mortality, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of...
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This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search effort of employed as well as unemployed...
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support measures, in the short term, the Romanian labour market is facing the unemployment rate increase, at least in 2020, as …
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This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of … countries suggest that following the initial shock at the start of the pandemic, employment rates partially recovered between …
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. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
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. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
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The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it … results show that while face-to-face services were undoubtedly hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, the sectoral shock was less … suggest that targeted measures to mitigate the persistent effects of the employment shock should take priority during the …
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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 path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …
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We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying...
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