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Work from Home and Disability Employment

Bloom, Nicholas - 2024

There has been a dramatic rise in disability employment in the US since the pandemic, a pattern mirrored in other … microdata, we find the increase in disability employment is concentrated in occupations with high levels of working from home … increases full-time employment by 1.1% for individuals with a physical disability. A back of the envelope calculation reveals …

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A Parsimonious Behavioral SEIR Model of the 2020 COVID Epidemic in the United States and the United Kingdom

Atkeson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I present a behavioral epidemiological model of the evolution of the COVID epidemic in the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 12 months. The model includes the introduction of a new, more contagious variant in the UK in early fall and the US in mid December. The model is...

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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space

Lambert, Peter; Hansen, Stephen; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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