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Non-Working Workers. The Spanish Labour Market under Covid-19

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  • José Ignacio García-Pérez

    (Universidad Pablo de Olavide and FEDEA)

  • Antonio Villar

    (Universidad Pablo de Olavide and ISEAK)

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We propose in this paper a way of analyzing the evolution of unemployment that considers, besides conventional unemployment rates, unemployment duration, discouraged workers and workers with suspended jobs. Those variables are combined into a synthetic index of non-employment that can be expressed as the product of two components, incidence and severity. We apply this methodology to analyse the evolution of the Spanish labour market during one year with Covid-19. The data show that the behaviour of the job market has been very asymmetric by regions and types of workers. We find that not only incidence and severity are quite heterogeneous across regions and worker types, but also that the evolution between 2019 and 2020 has been different from that corresponding to the financial crisis, with high unemployment regions and older workers suffering less, in terms of incidence and severity.

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  • José Ignacio García-Pérez & Antonio Villar, 2024. "Non-Working Workers. The Spanish Labour Market under Covid-19," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 248(1), pages 53-71, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:hpe:journl:y:2024:v:248:i:1:p:53-71
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    Keywords

    Unemployment duration; Severity; Incidence; Covid-19;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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