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Title: Unemployment and Occupation Mobility During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: Using CPS data, we examine the occupation mobility rates of individuals who became unemployed within the 3 month period immediately following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. We define an individual as having undergone an occupation change if their recorded occupation upon re-entering employment differs from the last occupation that they worked in prior to becoming unemployed. While controlling for respondents' demographic characteristics and pre-unemployment occupations, we find that individuals who became unemployed during the first 3 months of the pandemic were approximately 18 percentage points less likely to have changed occupations upon returning to employment than individuals who became unemployed prior to the pandemic. However, this decline is not observed among individuals who became unemployed in later parts of 2020, or in subsequent years. We find that approximately 38% of the decline in mobility following the onset of the pandemic can be accounted for by high rates of expected recall by former employers during the early months of the pandemic. Slightly more than half of the remaining decline in mobility is consistent with poor local macroeconomic conditions, rather than other pandemic-specific characteristics.
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Authors: Manuel, Nick; Plesca, Miana
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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Health, Population Health and Health Systems
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