Ability to work from home: evidence from two surveys and implications for the labor market in the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between workers’ to work at home, as captured in job characteristics and as measured by For the article also the of The article concludes by employment estimates the aiming to gauge how the initial employment effects of the pandemic differed between occupations in which telework is and occupations is not. https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/blog/key-economic-facts-about-covid-19/ . The highly exposed industries identified by Vavra are “Restaurants and Bars, Travel and Transportation, Entertainment (e.g., casinos and amusement parks), Personal Services (e.g., dentists, daycare providers, barbers), other sensitive Retail (e.g., department stores and car dealers), and sensitive Manufacturing (e.g., aircraft and car manufacturing).”