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Senior Fellows/Fellows, 2020, Pandemic

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million los...
Keywords: Labor market, unemployment, Employment, covid-19.
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

The Chinese government ended the 76-day lockdown of Wuhan on April 8. Outside Wuhan, many local governments had already eased restrictions on movement and shifted their focus to reviving the economy. This letter documents several facts of the post-lockdown economic recovery in China. The main findin...
Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, Post-Lockdown, economic recovery, China
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