The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment

Abstract

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COVID-19 and non-Irish nationals in Ireland

“…The EU-West* and the non-EU groups are more likely to occupy jobs that can be done from home than Irish nationals. This is in contrast to the situation in the United States, where immigrants are much less likely to work in high remotability jobs (Borjas and Cassidy, 2020). However, a much lower proportion of those in the EU-East group (13 per cent) are in occupations where there is a high level of remotability and 73 per cent are in occupations with a low level.…”

“…everyone in a particular occupation is given the same value. The measure does not take account of other factors such as size of firm or contract (see Borjas and Cassidy, 2020, for a more sophisticated measure). We classify jobs depending on the proportion of employees in each ISCO occupation that have the ability to work from home, based on patterns of remote working before the pandemic.…”

Working Remotely and the Supply-side Impact of Covid-19

“…1 Recent work examines the response of employment (Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Weber, 2020b;Cajner, Crane, Decker, Grigsby, Hamins-Puertolas, Hurst, Kurz, and Yildirmaz, 2020;Campello, Kankanhalli, and Muthukrishnan, 2020;Borjas and Cassidy, 2020;Fairlie, Couch, and Xu, 2020); firm revenue (Barrero, Bloom, and Davis, 2020;Landier and Thesmar, 2020); firm closures (Bartik, Bertrand, Cullen, Glaeser, Luca, and Stanton, 2020); stock market performance (Ding, Levine, Lin, and Xie, 2020); or consumer spending Baker, Farrokhnia, Meyer, Pagel, and Yannelis (2020); Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Weber (2020a) during this period.…”

Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market

“…Overall, the research so far seems to unanimously show that the workers hit the hardest by the crisis are women, young, low-educated (Béland et al, 2020a;Bick and Blanding, 2020;Cho and Winters, 2020;Cowan, 2020;Montenovo et al, 2020) or with an ethnic minority or migration background (Béland et al, 2020a;Borjas and Cassidy, 2020;Cho and Winters, 2020;Cowan, 2020;Fairlie et al, 2020;Montenovo et al, 2020). Nevertheless, some evidence suggests that during the initial stages of the crisis men might have been disproportionately affected (Béland et al, 2020a) and that some older workers might have chosen to go on early retirement (Coibion et al, 2020;Cowan, 2020).…”