Pandemics, Global Supply Chains, and Local Labor Demand: Evidence from 100 Million Posted Jobs in China

Hanming Fang, Chunmian Ge (), Hanwei Huang and Hongbin Li ()
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Chunmian Ge: South China Uni-versity of Technology
Hongbin Li: Stanford University

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Abstract: This paper studies how the COVID-19 pandemic has a?ected labor de-mand using over 100 million posted jobs on one of the largest online plat-forms in China. Our data reveals that, due to the e?ects of the pandemic both in China and abroad, the number of newly posted jobs within the ?rst 13 weeks after the Wuhan lockdown on January 23, 2020 was about one third lower than that of the same lunar calendar weeks in 2018 and 2019. Using econometric methods, we show that, via the global supply chain, COVID-19 cases abroad and in particular pandemic-control policies by foreign govern-ments reduced new job creations in China by 11.7%. We also ?nd that Chinese ?rms most exposed to international trade outperformed other ?rms at the beginning of the pandemic but underperformed during recovery as the Novel Coronavirus spread throughout the world.

Keywords: OVID-19; labor demand; global supply chains; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2020-10-29
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