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Labor reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic

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  • Daniel Aaronson
  • Riley Lewers
  • Daniel G. Sullivan

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The Covid-19 pandemic and associated recession have had dramatically different effects across industries, with some, including large parts of the leisure and hospitality sector, truly devastated and others, like much of the manufacturing sector, able to recover quite quickly. This has led some analysts to describe the pandemic as a reallocation shock, requiring substantial movement of labor across industries. Such a process likely requires substantial time, during which the natural rate of unemployment may be elevated. In this Chicago Fed Letter, we consider two questions: First, has the need for labor reallocation risen, and second, has there been an increase in the amount of reallocation that is actually occurring?

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  • Daniel Aaronson & Riley Lewers & Daniel G. Sullivan, 2021. "Labor reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic," Chicago Fed Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, issue 455, pages 1-7, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedhle:92069
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    1. Joe Piacentini & Harley Frazis & Peter B. Meyer & Michael Schultz & Leo Sveikauskas, 2022. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets and Inequality," Economic Working Papers 551, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    2. Niels Gillmann & Andreas Maas & Antje Weyh, 2023. "Berufliche Mobilität vor und während der Corona-Pandemie," ifo Dresden berichtet, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 30(01), pages 03-10, February.
    3. Gomez-Salvador, Ramon & Soudan, Michel, 2022. "The US labour market after the COVID-19 recession," Occasional Paper Series 298, European Central Bank.
    4. Basso, Gaetano & Depalo, Domenico & Lattanzio, Salvatore, 2023. "Worker flows and reallocation during the recovery," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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