Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it quickly became apparent that initial job losses from the ensuing economic crisis tended to be concentrated among low-wage workers (Cajner et al. 2020), women (Alon et al. 2020), and members of some minority groups (Fairlie et al. 2020). With the promise of an effective vaccine becoming widely available in 2021, attention turns to how these hard-hit demographic groups will fare in the post-COVID-19 economy.
Autor and Reynolds (2020) make a compelling case that the dwindling employment prospects currently facing low-wage workers may persist after the pandemic ends. They point out that the continued use […]
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