> OF COURSE the reason that worldwide labour markets are tight is that so many people were died or disabled from COVID!!!!
How would you convince yourself either way and what would you use to estimate the effect size?
I'm somewhat lazy here, but I'm a little tired of trying to look at labor statistics, given the many pitfalls I've found when I looked at them some time ago (starting from weird definitions of jobless, going through having to remember about various seasonalities, ending at effects related to some kinds of work counting or not depending on particulars with those particulars only changing over time[1]), so I want to piggyback of someone going through at-least-half of the exercise of finding sources and associated pitfalls if at all possible.
> I hate everything. Because I doubt anyone works anywhere where one of the reasons a few of their colleagues aren't there or can't work as much ISN'T COVID at this point.
Anecdotally, in my case the largest reason for that over the last years is that they simply quit for reasons not directly related.
[1] e.g. childcare, where "family does the work" is never counted and the amount of tax fraud will change over time and affect how much of that is actually counted
