The current coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has led the world toward severe socio-economic crisis and psychological … distress. It has severely hit the economy; but the service sector, particularly the hospitality industry, is hard hit by it. It … underlying framework by surveying 372 employees of the hospitality industry during COVID-19. Results indicate that perceived job …

by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor by increasing … labor income by 0.27%, increases flows into unemployment by approximately 0.1 percentage points (1%), lowers federal income … tax receipts by 0.4%, and increases unemployment insurance payments by 2.5%. The increases in unemployment we observe are …

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

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