Category: Labor

Early Evidence on the End of Expanded Federal Unemployment Benefits

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7.30.21. Noah Williams. Beginning in May a number of states announced that they would be ending participation in the federal enhanced and expanded unemployment benefit programs instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 26 states decided to end their participation in these programs before their scheduled expiration in September. Due to limited data, this report focuses on the first four states that ended benefits on June 12, and the additional eight states that ended them on June 19.

Employment Effects of Ending of Expanded Federal Unemployment Benefits

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7.28.21. Noah Williams. Beginning in May a number of states announced that they would be ending participation in the federal enhanced and expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefit programs instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 26 states decided to end participation before the scheduled expiration in September.

Current Private Indicators on the Wisconsin Economy: Small Business Employment and Consumer Spending

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7.22.21. Noah Williams. I use two private data sources to analyze the labor market and consumer spending in the state of Wisconsin. I first analyze labor market data from a sample of mostly small businesses. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, by mid-April 2020 48% of these businesses were closed, with employment down 59%.

Labor Markets in the US and Wisconsin: Current State and Long-run Trends

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6.25.21. Noah Williams. I survey the current state of labor markets in the United States and the state of Wisconsin. In recent weeks the labor market has become a primary focus of economic and policy discussions, with job openings soaring to record levels while employment gains have slowed.

The (Poor) Performance of the Unemployment Insurance System during COVID-19 in the United States and (Especially) Wisconsin

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5.10.21. Noah Williams. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment increased at a rate never before seen in the United States. In response, the federal government expanded unemployment insurance benefits to aid those thrown out of work.

The Impact of Increased Unemployment Benefits During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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4.1.21. Junjie Guo, Noah Williams, Arwa Alalwani, Zhi Jiang, Jiashun Pang, Stefan Smutny, Linhua Zeng. We analyze the effects of the 2020 CARES Act implementation on the local labor market. We use observations from the Homebase Database which provides granular labor market data from a sample of small businesses across the United States.

Wisconsin’s Labor Market and COVID-19

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2.5.21. Kim Ruhl. This brief reports labor-market indicators for Wisconsin to demonstrate the effects of COVID-19 on labor supply and demand. This report is part of a larger effort at CROWE to document and analyze the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Industry Concentration and Local Labor Market Dynamics

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1.29.21. Simeon Alder. In recent years, a growing literature has analyzed the effects of various shocks and policies on local employment growth.

The Effects of COVID-19 on Wisconsin’s Workers and Firms

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6.26.20. Kim Ruhl. This note highlights two high-frequency data series that show some of the effects of COVID-19 on Wisconsin workers and firms. This report is part of a larger effort at CROWE to document and analyze the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Measuring Proximity to Others in the Workplace

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5.5.20. Kim Ruhl. This brief uses data that score occupations by how closely workers interact with others in order to rank industries on their potential to spread disease through close contact. This report is part of a larger effort at CROWE to document and analyze the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.