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This paper expands on previous work analyzing employment changes by employer size during the
pandemic by incorporating additional months of new data (October and November 2020) and examining
job loss by both employer size class and detailed industries. Continuing trends observed since
mid-summer, we observe continued faster job recovery among large employers than among smaller
employers. Furthermore, establishments of large employers known to have multiple establishments
have fared better than large employers with only a single establishment. Within small employers,
we find that employment loss due to closures has declined only a small amount since July, going
from 2.8% to 2.3% in November. For large employers, employment loss due to closures has been
less than 1% since June.