| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29784 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29784 |
| Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic? | |
| R. Jason Faberman; Andreas I. Mueller; Ayşegül Şahin | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-02-21 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) allow us to elicit information about individuals’ desired work hours for the 2013-2021 period. Using these questions, along with workers’ actual labor market participation, we construct a labor market underutilization measure, the Aggregate Hours Gap (AHG), following Faberman et al. (2020). The AHG captures changes in labor market underutilization for the full population along both the extensive and intensive margins using data on desired work hours as a measure of their potential labor supply. We find that the sharp increase in the AHG during the Covid pandemic essentially disappeared by the end of 2021. We also document a sharp decline in desired work hours during the pandemic that persists through the end of 2021 and is roughly double the drop in the labor force participation rate. Ignoring the decline in desired hours overstates the degree of underutilization by 2.5 percentage points (12.5%). Our findings suggest that, as of 2021Q4, the labor market is tighter than suggested by the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor force participation rate. These discrepancies underscore the importance of taking into account the intensive margin for both labor market underutilization and potential labor supply. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Unemployment and Immigration ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29784 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587458 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | R. Jason Faberman,Andreas I. Mueller,Ayşegül Şahin. Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?. 2022. |
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| w29784.pdf（928KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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