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A Hard or Soft Landing? The Answer May Lie in the Beveridge Curve
The traditional Beveridge curve suggests that a sharp rise in unemployment is needed to meaningfully lower the job vacancy rate. But the curve shaped by the pandemic labor market may signal a different result.
Overemployed Workers? Trends on Multiple Jobholders
After tumbling during the pandemic, the share of employed people holding more than one job has recovered to its pre-pandemic level.
How Has the COVID-19 Recession Affected U.S. Labor across Occupations and Industries?
COVID-19 hit the U.S. labor market hard, but relative changes in employment and hours worked vary across occupations and industries.
Compensation Patterns of Overemployed Workers
An analysis showed U.S. workers with multiple jobs had on average slightly higher annual earnings but lower hourly pay than workers with a single job.
The Great Resignation vs. the Great Reallocation Revisited
The type of jobs typically found in the service industry had the sharpest increase in people quitting for a new job in 2021, according to an analysis of job quits.
The Allocation of Immigrant Talent across Countries: Employment Gaps
A cross-country analysis found immigrants were more likely than natives to work in fields like food service and less likely to be in fields like engineering.
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The Allocation of Immigrant Talent in the United States
Immigrants account for close to 20% of the U.S. labor force, but they often do not have an easy time navigating U.S. labor markets.
Journal Article
The Evolution of Job Applications and Job-Finding Rates since the 1980s
The number of monthly job applications has increased since the 1980s, but the job-finding rates have not.
Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and Benefits: An Analysis of Rules across U.S. States and Time
Using a unique database, this analysis finds large variations among U.S. states’ rules governing eligibility and benefits for unemployment insurance.
Which Workers Have Been Most Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Occupations that earn less than $34,963 on average—such as cashiers, servers and janitors—accounted for 34% of the increase in unemployment from January to April.