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

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

makers when implementing policies to combat race and ethnic, and gender gaps in the labor market. … affected companies, households and the global economy. We explore the effect of this health and economic shock on labor market … outcomes, and the changes in labor market disparities between ethnic groups and genders. The results provide evidence of an …

In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved …, deaths, and closure measures. We find that the labor market recovery of the summer and early fall stagnated in late fall and … early winter. As noted by others, we find low-wage and minority workers are hardest hit initially, but that recoveries have …

As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand … fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic …

From February to April 2020, as COVID-19 hit the U.S. economy, the official unemployment rate (UR) climbed from 3 …

barriers. Second, there is comparatively little work on the differential impact of retirement outreach across race and … example, by embracing the fact that Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites acquire retirement information from different sources …

makers when implementing policies to combat race and ethnic, and gender gaps in the labor market … affected companies, households and the global economy. We explore the effect of this health and economic shock on labor market … outcomes, and the changes in labor market disparities between ethnic groups and genders. The results provide evidence of an …

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … measured unemployment could be meaningfully tempered by a substantial reduction in labor force participation. … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds …