States with relatively more COVID-19 cases tend to have a workforce less likely to face unemployment …

uncertainty much more than the average election. The COVID-19 pandemic drove huge increases in policy uncertainty and unemployment …

frequencies) on unemployment, interest rates, inflation and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This information is used to … investigate the effects of COVID-19 and the corresponding monetary policy on the U.S. unemployment, both nationally and across U ….S. states, by using a structural vector autoregression model. Historical decomposition analyses show that the U.S. unemployment …

Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …