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The Early Impact of COVID-19 on Job Losses among Black Women in the United States

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  • Michelle Holder
  • Janelle Jones
  • Thomas Masterson

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The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even as some workers were able to do their jobs from their homes, a high proportion of "essential workers" were African American, other people of color, women, and an intersection of these groups--women of color. The goal of this paper is to closely examine the contours, depth, and causes of COVID-19's impact on Black women's employment in the United States through the lenses of both feminist economic theory and stratification economics.

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  • Michelle Holder & Janelle Jones & Thomas Masterson, 2020. "The Early Impact of COVID-19 on Job Losses among Black Women in the United States," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_963, Levy Economics Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:lev:wrkpap:wp_963
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    Keywords

    Occupational Segregation; Racial Discrimination; Gender Discrimination; COVID-19;
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    JEL classification:

    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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