COVID-19 and labour market resilience: evidence from large-scale recruitment behaviour

Xinguo Yu, Hengxu Song, Ting Ren and Yanbo Xue

Regional Studies, 2024, vol. 58, issue 1, 45-60

Abstract: We construct a theoretical model to interpret the structural shock from the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of local labour market and industry specialization. The empirical study takes the large-scale online labour market of China to analyse firms’ hiring demand for 20 industries across 380 cities with monthly recruitment data from May 2017 to September 2020. Post-event quantitative analysis on job postings and employer demand highlighted that the pandemic resulted in an unemployment shock and industry- and city-level redistribution of the worker. China’s local job market resilience also revealed a regional imbalance, correlated with pandemic risk, city scale and industry structure.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2181325

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