Liberty Street Economics: The Anatomy of Labor Demand Pre- and Post-COVID

  
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LIBERTY STREET ECONOMICS


 

The Anatomy of Labor Demand Pre- and Post-COVID 

                                      

Richard Audoly, Miles Guerin, Giorgio Topa, and Roshie Xing 

 

Has labor demand changed since the COVID-19 pandemic? The authors leverage detailed data on the universe of U.S. online job listings to study the dynamics of labor demand pre- and post-COVID. They find that the biggest declines in job listings by occupation occurred in the largest and densest geographies, and the strongest increases in job listings by occupation occurred in smaller and less populated geographies. 

 

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