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Short-run Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Worker Transitions
Resource type
Report
Author/contributor
- Cowan, Benjamin W (Author)
Title
Short-run Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Worker Transitions
Abstract
I use Current Population Survey Data from February and April 2020 to examine how individual workers have transitioned between labor-market states and which workers have been hurt most by the COVID-19 pandemic. I find not only large effects on workers becoming unemployed but also a decline in labor-force participation, an increase in absence from one’s job, and a decrease in hours worked. Generally, more vulnerable populations—racial and ethnic minorities, those born outside the U.S., women with children, the least educated, and workers with a disability—have experienced the largest declines in the likelihood of (full-time) work and work hours.
Report Number
27315
Report Type
Working Paper
Institution
National Bureau of Economic Research
Date
June 2020
Accessed
12/08/2020, 17:02
Library Catalogue
National Bureau of Economic Research
Extra
Series: Working Paper Series
DOI: 10.3386/w27315
Citation
Cowan, B. W. (2020). Short-run Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Worker Transitions (Working Paper No. 27315). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27315
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