The long-term impact of COVID-19 on minority employment by gender

Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie and Huanan Xu

Chapter Chapter 9 in Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19, 2025, pp 135-150 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Using Current Population Survey data from 2017 to 2022 and difference-in-difference models, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic unemployment gaps conditional on gender. We find that early in the pandemic for the full sample and within sub-groups of women and men that unemployment gaps increased for all groups examined (Blacks, Hispanics and Asians) relative to whites. Unemployment peaked early in the pandemic among Hispanics and this drove the largest increases in unemployment gaps relative to whites for any group through May 2020. The Hispanic-white unemployment rate gap for women was the largest observed during the pandemic. Difference-in-difference estimates also indicate that the Asian-white unemployment gap was larger than for Blacks through much of the pandemic. By 2022, unemployment gaps for all groups had returned to levels similar to those seen prior to the arrival of COVID-19.

Keywords: Unemployment; Race; Gender; Pandemic; Inequality; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035302758
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