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Title: The effects of COVID-19 on employment dynamics in the US

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2023

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the employment dynamics of households in the U.S. during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on couples’ behavior, the empirical analysis uses data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to build linear regressions with employment indicators as dependent variables, and months before and during the pandemic as independent variables. The process examines different sub-samples of the population, controlling for education level, occupation-based flexibility and if there are children in the households. The major findings are that women sustained substantially higher unemployment rates than men, and that couples were not able to coordinate their labor supply, suffering strong exogenous correlated shocks. The software used during the empirical analysis was R.

Url: https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/103331/1/Helena_Fernandez_master_thesis.pdf

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Authors: Fernández García, Helena Araceli

Institution: University of Oslo

Department: Department of Economics

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Pages: 1-47

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Population Health and Health Systems, Work, Family, and Time

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