02271cas a2200337 a 4500 AALejournalIMF023222 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 9798400220869 20.00 USD 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Soh, Jiaming. Did the COVID-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? : Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data / Jiaming Soh, Myrto Oikonomou, Carlo Pizzinelli, Ippei Shibata. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022. 1 online resource (37 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 This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the COVID-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the share of digital occupations in both employment and newly-posted vacancies. This result is driven, however, by the smaller decline in demand for digital workers relative to non-digital ones, and not by an absolute increase in the demand for digital workers. While our evidence supports the view that digital workers, particularly those in urban areas and cognitive occupations, were more insulated during this recession, there is little indication of a persistent shift in the demand for digital occupations. Mode of access: Internet Aggregate Human Capital imf Employment imf Intergenerational Income Distribution imf Unemployment imf Wages imf Oikonomou, Myrto. Pizzinelli, Carlo. Shibata, Ippei. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/195 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1018-5941&volume=2022&issue=195 IMF e-Library