Authors
Robert Breunig, Wei Cheng, Laura Montenovo, Kyoung Hoon Lee, Bruce A. Weinberg, Yinjunjie Zhang
- Acknowledgements & Disclosure
- Weinberg is grateful for support from U01AG076549. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3386/w33029
- Pages
- 63
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Introduction 1
- Background 5
- Related Literature 5
- The Pandemic and Policy Responses 7
- United States 8
- Australia 9
- South Korea 10
- European Countries: Italy, Denmark, Spain, France, and Sweden 11
- Data 14
- Variable construction 14
- Data Description by Country 16
- US Data 16
- Korean Data 16
- Australia Data 17
- European Data 17
- Occupational indices 18
- COVID-19 and Share of People Not-at-Work 19
- Aggregate Changes in Labor Market Outcomes 20
- Differential Effects by Demographic Characteristics 22
- Age 23
- Educational attainment 25
- Differences for Females and Males 26
- Children and Marital Status 27
- Occupation Indices and Labor Market Outcomes 29
- Conclusion 32