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Maine Employment Change in 2020: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Gabe, Todd
  • Diodato, William

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The COVID-19 pandemic had large economic impacts worldwide. In Maine, year-over-year employment fell by 18 percent in April of 2020, and by 7.0 percent in December. Of Maine’s three metropolitan areas, Portland experienced the largest employment decrease between April 2019 and 2020. In December, employment in Bangor was 4.5 percent lower than twelve months earlier, compared with a 7.0 percent year-over-year employment decline in the Portland Metropolitan Area. Maine’s Leisure and Hospitality sector had a 60 percent decline in year-over-year employment in April, and the sector’s employment was 29 percent lower than its 2019 level in December of 2020. Across Maine’s three metropolitan areas, retail employment returned to slightly above pre-pandemic levels over the last four months of 2020. By the end of 2020, retail employment in Portland hovered at about five percent above employment levels one year earlier.

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  • Gabe, Todd & Diodato, William, 2021. "Maine Employment Change in 2020: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic," MPRA Paper 106930, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:106930
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    1. Gabe, Todd & Crawley, Andrew, 2020. "Early Impacts of COVID-19 on Maine’s Hospitality Sector in 2020," MPRA Paper 102678, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Todd, Gabe, 2020. "Maine Employment Change During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Shift-Share Analysis," MPRA Paper 103125, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Gabe Todd & Florida Richard, 2021. "Impacts of Jobs Requiring Close Physical Proximity and High Interaction with the Public on U.S. Industry Employment Change During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 21(3), pages 1163-1172, July.
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    Keywords

    COVID-19; employment change; Maine;
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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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