PPP Loans & State-level Employment Growth

Bezankeng Njinju and Murat Tasci
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Hana Michelle Braitsch

Economic Commentary, 2021, vol. 2021, issue 20, 7

Abstract: In this Economic Commentary, we focus on the first round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans granted beginning in March 2020 until early August 2020, when turbulence in the labor market was pronounced, in order to demonstrate the PPP’s effects on local labor markets. We find that PPP loans helped mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic recession on state-level employment growth. States that received most of their funding early in the loan period had smaller employment declines than did states that received comparable funds later in the period.

Keywords: employment; paycheck protection program loans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-ec-202120

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