Employment impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic across metropolitan status and size

We use individual‐level data from the United States Current Population Survey to examine effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Job losses spiked in April 2020, and partially recovered in subsequent months. Non‐metropolitan and metr...

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Published inGrowth and Change Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 1958 - 1996
Main Authors Cho, Seung Jin, Lee, Jun Yeong, Winters, John V.
Format Journal Article Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2021
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
John Wiley and Sons Inc
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COVID-19
Employment
Infections
Job losses
Metropolitan areas
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Pandemics
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Summary:We use individual‐level data from the United States Current Population Survey to examine effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Job losses spiked in April 2020, and partially recovered in subsequent months. Non‐metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts were much larger in large metropolitan areas. The COVID‐19 infection rate was initially higher in large metropolitan areas and this is a significant factor explaining the higher early employment losses in large metropolitan areas. However, higher job losses for large metropolitan areas persisted through summer and fall 2020 even after COVID‐19 infection rates became higher in less populous areas. We find evidence of persistent effects of early COVID‐19 infection rates on later employment.
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ISSN:0017-4815
1468-2257
DOI:10.1111/grow.12540