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 …

COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of employment outcomes - including permanent layoffs, which generate large … examine how these employment patterns vary across different states, according to the timing and severity of virus caseloads … economic activity reduce employment rates concurrently, but do not seem to have lingering effects once relaxed. In contrast …

considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction …

theory of producer is employed to rationalize the findings, showing that the magnitude of employment responses to minimum …

or not to search for employment, creating more discouraged workers. Since 2003, there have been a number of large …

shock. Third, we present evidence coherent with the idea that more leveraged sectors experience larger employment volatility … reduction of liquidity to firms. Next we draw on sector-level data on employment and leverage in a number of OECD countries at … quarterly frequencies to assess whether highly leveraged equilibria originate more employment adjustment under financial …