The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it …. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into … persistent for temporary jobs and self-employment. Permanent jobs in the hard-hit sector showed increasingly large persistent …

We show that the opioid crisis slows transitions to employment from unemployment and non-participation, implying slower … in triplicate states to return to employment about 10 percent faster than workers in non-triplicate states. These … estimates imply a 1.1 percentage point higher level of employment in steady state, and faster recovery from negative 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 …

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … had minimal effects on employment and earnings; these programs mainly induced the early exit of participants. The fourth … increased employment and earnings. Both early participant exits and effective job counseling underlie these impacts. We conclude …