How Has Covid-19 Affected Young Workers?

Autor/inn/en	Cowan, Benjamin; Garcia, Kairon Shayne
Titel	How Has Covid-19 Affected Young Workers? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wie hat sich Covid-19 auf junge Arbeitnehmer ausgewirkt?
Quelle	In: CESifo forum, 22 (2021) 4, S. 8-14 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2190-717X
Schlagwörter	Pandemie; Beschäftigungseffekt; Arbeitslosigkeit; Qualifikation; Jugendarbeitslosigkeit; Auswirkung; Entwicklung; Junger Erwachsener; USA
Abstract	"Covid-19 and its fallout have had a staggering effect on labor markets around the world. In April 2020, the unemployment rate rose to a post-WWII record high of 14.7 percent (+ 10.3 percentage points from April 2019) in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2020). One group of workers that has been of particu-lar concern to policymakers is the young, likely owing to their relatively fragile financial situations as well as the potential for long-term scarring effects of reduced employment during the pandemic (Schwandt and von Wachter 2020; Gould and Kassa 2020). In this paper, we examine the effects of the pandemic recession on young workers, whom we define as being 21-30 years old, relative to older age groups. In doing so, we use the techniques of our companion paper, Cowan and Garcia (2021), which analyzes how employment has changed over the course of the pandemic for all work-ers by gender, race/ethnicity, and educational level. In this paper, we also examine how the experience of young workers has differed across categories within these classifications." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/1