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      Measuring labor supply and demand shocks during COVID-19

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          We measure labor demand and supply shocks at the sector level around the COVID-19 outbreak by estimating a Bayesian structural vector autoregression on monthly statistics of hours worked and real wages. Most sectors were subject to large negative labor supply and demand shocks in March and April, with substantial heterogeneity in the size of shocks across sectors. Our estimates suggest that two-thirds of the drop in the aggregate growth rate of hours in March and April 2020 are attributable to labor supply. We validate our estimates of supply shocks by showing that they are correlated with sectoral measures of telework.

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                Journal
                Eur Econ Rev
                Eur Econ Rev
                European Economic Review
                Published by Elsevier B.V.
                0014-2921
                0014-2921
                15 September 2021
                15 September 2021
                : 103901
                Affiliations
                [a ]Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
                [b ]Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, United States of America
                Author notes
                [* ]Corresponding author.
                Article
                S0014-2921(21)00213-0 103901
                10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103901
                8442500
                8c02401e-0e33-4363-91b6-27534c8eab04
                © 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V.

                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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                : 29 December 2020
                : 8 July 2021
                : 31 August 2021
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                supply and demand shocks,covid-19,structural vector autoregressions,sign restrictions

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