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Unemployment During Pandemic Takes Toll on Older Workers


Aging While … in a Post-Pandemic World - ASA Generations

Prediction: After the pandemic, more older workers will be unemployed and have difficulty getting hired, potentially pushing millions into poverty. Unlike in ...

When Women Lose All the Jobs: Essential Actions for a Gender ...

Older Asian women ages 55 to 64 experienced the worst unemployment rate in their age group at the start of the pandemic—15.1 percent—which ...

Older workers left in droves in pandemic; employers can help them ...

One of the barriers is long-documented employer biases against older workers. Unemployed older workers typically take twice as long to get hired ...

The COVID-19 Recession Is Hitting Young Workers—Especially ...

Our unemployment rate estimates for 20 to 24 year olds show that they are having greater difficulty than adults with finding employment due to ...

Work and Retirement in the US After the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock

Once unemployed, workers over 65 tend to take more time to find new employment than younger workers (Neumark, Burn, and. Button 2019). In the ...

A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.

The stigma of long-term unemployment can be profound and long-lasting. As the United States eases out of the Covid-19 pandemic, ...

The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history

Zooming out beyond prime working age to employment among the entire adult population shows the full scope of the pandemic recession. About half ...

Featured | The ILR School - Cornell University

ILR's Institute for Compensation Studies outlines a few realities of which older workers, employers and policymakers should be aware during the pandemic. middle ...

Where Have All the Employees Gone? - OperationsInc

During the extent of the COVID pandemic, the federal government provided increased weekly monetary support in addition to regular unemployment ...

Unemployed Americans are feeling the emotional strain of job loss

Rise in unemployment has been more pronounced for Hispanic workers, younger workers and those without a bachelor's degree · From 2019 to 2020, ...

Why has COVID-19 been especially harmful for working women?

Millions of women were already supporting themselves and their families on meager wages before coronavirus-mitigation lockdowns sent unemployment rates ...

House of Representatives passes bill to protect older Americans in ...

The coronavirus pandemic also took a toll — older workers who lost jobs struggled to reenter the workforce and had higher levels of long-term unemployment than ...

What the Pandemic Has Meant for These Older Adults - Parker Life

Largely ignored and dismissed until now, essential workers are increasingly 50 and older, many employed in low-wage service jobs like retail and ...

Older workers after the pandemic: creating an inclusive labour market

In total, almost 4 million people between 50 and state pension age were economically inactive in the third quarter of 2021. The most common ...

Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on older persons

face additional vulnerabilities at this time. The spread of COVID-19 in care homes and insti- tutions is taking a devastating toll on older people's lives, with ...

Labor Market Trends During the Pandemic Recession - Minnesota.gov

By fourth quarter 2020, job vacancies, at 127,300, had recovered to the level of the previous year, with only slightly more unemployed workers than openings at ...

US job losses due to COVID-19 highest since Great Depression

The US jobs report for April brings sobering, if not unexpected news: The country has lost 20.6 million jobs since mid-March, resulting in ...

Unemployment at 50+: Economic and Psychosocial Consequences

Herein lies the age-specific risk for older unemployed adults: once becoming unemployed they are at greater risk at staying unemployed. As a ...

(PDF) For Whom the Pandemic Tolls: A Person-Centric Analysis of ...

... ... Many older workers have encountered age discrimination issues during the pandemic despite the ADEA legislation's coverage (Button, 2020).

Virus Job Losses Hit Young, Minorities First

But unemployment among younger Americans saw a larger spike than it did for their more senior colleagues. The unemployment rate for individuals ...