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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Asian American Employment

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  • Bo E. Honore
  • Luojia Hu

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Recent studies have documented the disparate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor market outcomes for different racial groups. This paper adds to this literature by documenting that the employment of Asian Americans - in particular those with no college education - has been especially hard hit by the economic crisis associated with the onset of the pandemic. This can only partly be explained by differences in demographics, local market conditions, and job characteristics, and it also cannot be entirely explained by possible different selection into education levels across ethnic groups. The burden on Asian Americans is primarily borne by those who are not US-born.

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  • Bo E. Honore & Luojia Hu, 2020. "The COVID-19 Pandemic and Asian American Employment," Working Paper Series WP-2020-19, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, revised 01 Jul 2021.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedhwp:92695
    DOI: 10.21033/wp-2020-19
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    1. Bo E. Honoré & Luojia Hu, 2023. "The COVID-19 pandemic and Asian American employment," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(5), pages 2053-2083, May.
    2. Chris de Mena & Suvy Qin & Jing Zhang, 2023. "The Labor Market Impact of Covid-19 on Asian Americans," Working Paper Series WP 2023-10, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

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    Keywords

    Employment; Pandemic; Asian Americans; racial disparity;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J70 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - General
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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