We report the results of a nationally-representative sample of the US population during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey ran in two waves from April 1-5, 2020 and May 2-8, 2020. Of those employed pre-COVID-19, we find that about half are now working from home, including 35.2% who report they...

Remote work surged during the Covid pandemic but there is disagreement about the extent of the change. To address this question, we field a new, nationally-representative survey: the Remote Life Survey (RLS). We find that in October 2020, 31.6 percent of the continuously employed workforce...

Economists have been puzzled by the counterintuitive trend over the past several years in which the U.S. labor market has tightened but wage growth has been mediocre, at best. This paper first looks at the unemployment rate as a measure of labor market slack and finds that is not useful this...