Kim Parker contributed to this chapter. The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the U.S. labor market. Businesses ...

2020. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality." NBER Working paper 26947. Autor, David H., and David Dorn. 2013. "The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market." ...

By inducing a massive global recession, COVID-19 has certainly created new inequalities among cohorts of young people. The pandemic has also exacerbated preexisting inequalities in the labor market, ...

January 2025 marks five years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in 1,216,305 American deaths and ...

Hjördis Rut Sigurjonsdottir, a social researcher at the Nordregio research center based in Sweden, said that labor migration was the main driver of immigration to Iceland. "Most migrants that ...

The latest news can be found in the Unemployment series. As a result of the coronavirus crisis, the active labour force shrank by 322 thousand in Q2 2020 relative to the previous quarter. In addition, ...

COVID-19’s migratory effects, of course, haven’t only been found in the tri-state area. Frey wrote in a recent piece for Brookings that since the pandemic, “migration patterns to other parts ...