Working Paper

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Asian American Employment

Abstract: This paper documents that the employment of Asian Americans with no college education has been especially hard hit by the economic crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. This cannot be explained by differences in demographics or in job characteristics. Asian American employment is also harder hit unconditional on education. This suggests that different selection into education levels across ethnic groups alone cannot explain the main results. This pattern does not apply to the 2008 economic crisis. Our findings suggest that this period might be fundamentally different from the previous recession.

Keywords: Employment; Pandemic; Asian Americans; racial disparity;

JEL Classification: J21; J70; J71;

https://doi.org/10.21033/wp-2020-19

Bibliographic Information

Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Part of Series: Working Paper Series

Publication Date: 2020-09-22

Number: WP-2020-19

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