We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size …. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much … larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses manifest as increased unemployment, labor force withdrawal, and …

We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use … decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

MSA-level data yields large effects of local house price changes on local young-firm employment growth and employment … driving force – in medium-run fluctuations in young-firm employment shares in recent decades. The great housing bust after … bank loan supply. As we also show, when the young-firm activity share falls (rises), local employment shifts strongly away …