Alipour, Jean-Victor; Fadinger, Harald; Schymik, Jan - 2020
This paper studies the relation between work and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Combining … administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and short-time work registrations, firm- and worker-level surveys and cell phone …. WFH effectively shields workers from short-term work, firms from COVID-19 distress and substantially reduces infection …