Archive: COVID-MarketWatch blogs
Job prospects have improved since the pandemic for these often overlooked workers. My colleagues just completed an interesting study exploring why the employment rate for older workers with disabilities surged after the pandemic (see Figure 1). Specifically, they were interested in the extent to which this surge can be attributed to the opportunity to work…
Rising asset markets helped the rich and government payments let the poor break even. We just finished a study that looks at how the pandemic affected the finances of vulnerable households as well as those with more resources, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a panel survey, whic…
