Release Date:March, 2023

Digitalization induced by the pandemic was seen both as a possible silver-lining from the crisis that could increase longer-term productivity and a risk for further labor market inequality between more...

Author/Editor: Jiaming Soh, Myrto Oikonomou, Carlo Pizzinelli, Ippei Shibata, Marina Mendes Tavares.

Release Date:September, 2022

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find more...

Release Date:March, 2022

Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a puzzle has emerged in several advanced economies: unfilled job vacancies have increased sharply even though employment has yet to fully recover. more...