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COVID-19 and labour market resilience: evidence from large-scale recruitment behaviour

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  • Xinguo Yu
  • Hengxu Song
  • Ting Ren
  • Yanbo Xue

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We construct a theoretical model to interpret the structural shock from the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of local labour market and industry specialization. The empirical study takes the large-scale online labour market of China to analyse firms’ hiring demand for 20 industries across 380 cities with monthly recruitment data from May 2017 to September 2020. Post-event quantitative analysis on job postings and employer demand highlighted that the pandemic resulted in an unemployment shock and industry- and city-level redistribution of the worker. China’s local job market resilience also revealed a regional imbalance, correlated with pandemic risk, city scale and industry structure.

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  • Xinguo Yu & Hengxu Song & Ting Ren & Yanbo Xue, 2024. "COVID-19 and labour market resilience: evidence from large-scale recruitment behaviour," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(1), pages 45-60, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:58:y:2024:i:1:p:45-60
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2181325
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