Employment hysteresis in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

In this paper, we test the validity of the employment hysteresis hypothesis. For this purpose, we use daily employment data at the national and state levels in the United States from January 8, 2020, to May 30, 2020. We apply the modified version of the Kapetanios-Shin unit root test, along with fin...

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Auteurs principaux: Xinyi Zhang, Giray Gozgor, Zhou Lu, Jinhua Zhang
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Langue:EN
Publié: Taylor & Francis Group 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/8beb876f1be1472c89a70e38b383a434
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Résumé:In this paper, we test the validity of the employment hysteresis hypothesis. For this purpose, we use daily employment data at the national and state levels in the United States from January 8, 2020, to May 30, 2020. We apply the modified version of the Kapetanios-Shin unit root test, along with finite-sample critical values. We find that the employment hysteresis hypothesis is valid in the United States during the COVID-19 era. The validity of the findings does not change when data at the national and state levels are used. The evidence is also valid when the employment levels for all firms and small firms are considered. The results are also robust to employment levels for workers at different income levels and employment in five different sectors.