Job search during the COVID-19 crisis

The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation

“…Last, our analysis contributes more generally to the study of the labor market during COVID-19 (Bartik et al, 2020;Gupta et al, 2020;Cheng et al, 2020;Fairlie et al, 2020;Montenovo et al, 2020). We add to work investigating trends in the applications and job postings during COVID in Sweden (Hensvik et al, 2020), and job postings in the US (Forsythe et al, 2020a;Campello et al, 2020;Forsythe et al, 2020b,c).…”

Pandemics, Global Supply Chains, and Local Labor Demand: Evidence from 100 Million Posted Jobs in China

“…The five levels of border controls are 0 = no measures, 1 = screening, 2 = quarantine arrivals from high-risk regions, 3 = ban on arrivals from some regions, 4 = total border closure. In the appendix, we show that we obtain a similar result by using a general policy stringency index that covers other aspects of containment and closure, including lockdown 10. In the appendix, we also present results using measures that are scaled by total exports or imports divided by GDP for each city.…”

“…The variable expCovid (and, respectively, impCovid) is the weighted average of the number of new cases in all countries, for which the weights are a city's relative share of export to (and, respectively, import from) each foreign country in the year 2012, which are the latest customs data available to us. 10 Similarly, the tradeweighted policy response measures expBorderControl and impBorderControl are the border control policies imposed by each foreign country, weighted by a city's relative share of exports to and imports from each country/region, respectively. To measure the exposure of local labor markets to shocks from other domestic cities, we construct a distance-weighted measure of new cases in each domestic city, using the inverse city-pair distance as the weight.…”

“…Two emerging strands of literature attempt to estimate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the empirical side, studies have shown that new job postings online dropped by about 40% in countries such as the United States (8,9) and Sweden (10). There also are strong correlations between the drop in job postings and exposure to COVID-19 by state or county in the United States (8,9).…”

Air Pollution and Post-COVID-19 Work Resumption: Evidence from China

“…Overall, the anti-epidemic tough measures such as locking down have a serious impact on people's lives, work, civic culture, etc. (Crossley et al, 2021;Durante et al, 2021;Engzell et al, 2021;Hensvik et al, 2021). Therefore, the domestic economic recovers as soon as possible is particularly critical in the post-pandemic era.…”