Title

The Covid-19 Pandemic and Asian American Employment

Author(s)

Bo E. Honoré Bo Honoré (Princeton University)

Luojia Hu Luojia Hu (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

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.

Creation Date

2021-07

Section URL ID

Paper Number

2021-71

URL

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3697541

File Function

Jel

J21, J70, J71

Keyword(s)

Employment, Pandemic, Asian Americans, Racial Disparity

Suppress

false

Series

13