Measuring employment during COVID-19: challenges and opportunities

Measuring the economy during COVID-19 has created a set of hurdles and prospects for the U.S. statistical agencies, the private sector, and academia. This included how to deal with unprecedented movements in economic variables while ensuring data quality. At the same time, new entrants released data...

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Autor principal: Cohen, Gerald D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7661802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11369-020-00190-4
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description Measuring the economy during COVID-19 has created a set of hurdles and prospects for the U.S. statistical agencies, the private sector, and academia. This included how to deal with unprecedented movements in economic variables while ensuring data quality. At the same time, new entrants released data that are sometimes at odds with gold standard releases. Given the multitude of data, this article focuses on both existing and new ways to track the employment statistics. The results leave more questions than answers. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1057/s11369-020-00190-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-76618022020-11-13 Measuring employment during COVID-19: challenges and opportunities Cohen, Gerald D. Bus Econ Original Article Measuring the economy during COVID-19 has created a set of hurdles and prospects for the U.S. statistical agencies, the private sector, and academia. This included how to deal with unprecedented movements in economic variables while ensuring data quality. At the same time, new entrants released data that are sometimes at odds with gold standard releases. Given the multitude of data, this article focuses on both existing and new ways to track the employment statistics. The results leave more questions than answers. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1057/s11369-020-00190-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2020-11-13 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7661802/ /pubmed/33204038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11369-020-00190-4 Text en © National Association for Business Economics 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7661802/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11369-020-00190-4
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