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Title: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Employment in the Food Manufacturing Subsector
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2022
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DOI: 10.22004/AG.ECON.322107
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Abstract: The food and agriculture sector is designated as one of sixteen critical infrastructure sectors according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. At a time when many non-essential or non-critical businesses were required to close temporarily, the essential critical infrastructure workforce played an outsized role in helping states endure the pandemic. We examine unemployment and labor force participation rates among pre-pandemic essential workers using panel data from the Current Population Survey from January to May 2020. Our findings indicate that workers in the food and agriculture sector were more likely to become unemployed or exit the labor force compared to workers in other essential sectors. However, within the food and agriculture sector, the food manufacturing subsector experienced lower likelihoods of unemployment and non-participation compared to the other subsectors of the food and agriculture sector. Analysis by worker characteristic reveals that unemployment and non-participation were greater among women, Black non-Hispanics compared to White non-Hispanics, and immigrants within the food and agriculture sector..
Url: https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea22/322107.html
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Authors: Swanson, Katelin A.; Mandal, Bidisha
Conference Name: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting
Publisher Location: Anaheim, California
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Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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