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ECIN Replication Package for "Racial Disparities in Unemployment during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recovery: The “Stubborn,” the “Hiccup,” and the “Stall”"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Kenneth Couch, University of Connecticut; Robert Fairlie, University of California at Santa Cruz; Huanan Xu, Indiana University South Bend

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Project Citation:

Couch, Kenneth, Fairlie, Robert, and Xu, Huanan. ECIN Replication Package for “Racial Disparities in Unemployment during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recovery: The ‘Stubborn,’ the ‘Hiccup,’ and the ‘Stall.’” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-11-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E182501V2

Project Description

Summary: We examine differential impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment in the U.S. beyond the initial recession. The Black-White unemployment gap did not immediately rise as much as for other groups, but subsequently increased and was stubbornly higher through 2021 Q3. The Latinx-White gap generally decreased after peaking in May 2020 to pre-pandemic levels by 2021 Q4, but experienced a unique “hiccup” in early 2021. The Asian-White gap peaked later (in June 2020) and was high in Q3 of 2020 (the “stall”), and remained positive through 2021 Q4. Decomposition methods are used to examine factors that contribute to these patterns.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J60 Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
      J70 Labor Discrimination: General

Manuscript Number: ECIN-Dec-2021-0603.R2

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