02307cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021024 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513546759 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Shibata, Ippei. The Distributional Impact of Recessions : the Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession / Ippei Shibata. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (30 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable' (where individuals have the option of working at home), and 'essential' jobs (which were not subject to government mandated shut-downs during the recent recession), and (iii) wage distributions. We find that young and less educated workers have always been affected more in recessions, while women and Hispanics were more severely affected during the Pandemic Recession. Surprisingly, teleworkable, social and essential jobs have been historically less cyclical. This historical acyclicality of teleworkable occupations is attributable to its higher share of skilled workers. Unlike during the Global Financial Crisis, however, employment in social industries fell more whereas employment in teleworkable and essential jobs fell less during the Pandemic Crisis. Lastly, during both recessions, workers at low-income earnings have suffered more than top-income earners, suggesting a significant distributional impact of the two recessions. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/096 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/096/001.2020.issue-096-en.xml IMF e-Library