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The threat of COVID-19 has increased the health risks of going to an office or factory, leading more workers to do their jobs remotely. In this paper, we provide results from firm surveys on both small and large businesses on the prevalence and productivity of remote work, and expectations about...
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What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by narrower policy tailored to jobs with low risk of disease transmission? We use O NET to construct a measure of the likelihood that jobs can be conducted from home (a variant of...
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We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by reducing consumption, reducing hours worked, and working from home. Working from home is subject to learning-by-doing and the capacity of the health care system is limited. A social...
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fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Hourly smart meter data from Texas reveals how daily routines … changed during the pandemic, with usage during weekdays closely resembling those of weekends. The 16% residential increase …
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-isolation generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, can result in dynamic paths that make cities converge to a stationary equilibrium with large … experienced similar reductions in CBD trips during the pandemic, trips in the largest cities have stabilized at levels that are … only about 60% of pre-pandemic levels. In contrast, smaller cities have, on average, returned to pre-pandemic levels. House …
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This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature and quality of the social context at work, at home, and in the community. While earlier studies have found...
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Self-reported health status (SRHS) is an imperfect measure of non-fatal health, but allows examination of how health status varies over the life course. Although women have lower mortality than men, they report worse health status up to age 65. The SRHS of both men and women deteriorates with...
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resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers … the problem is not restricted to a minority of managers, and that victims are often isolated in teams …
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We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...
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home after the pandemic ends, compared with just 5 percent before. We develop evidence on five reasons for this large shift … stigma associated with WFH, lingering concerns about crowds and contagion risks, and a pandemic-driven surge in technological … spending in major city centers by at least 5-10 percent relative to the pre-pandemic situation. Third, our data on employer …
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