Which Workers Bear the Burden of Social Distancing?

By S. Mongey, Laura Pilossoph, Alexander Weinberg. Social Science Research Network, 2020

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In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, nearly all U.S. states imposed social distancing policies to combat the spread of illness. To the extent that work can be done from home, some workers moved their offices to their abodes. Others, however, are unable to continue working as their usual tasks require a specific location or environment, or involve close proximity to others. Which types of jobs cannot be done from home and which types of jobs require close personal proximity to others? What share of overall U.S. employment falls in these categories? And, given that these jobs will be the most adversely affected, what are the characteristics of workers employed in these jobs? The final question is of particular importance as the government designs and implements policies aimed at helping the workers hardest hit by the pandemic.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, Modeling and Simulation

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Heterogeneous Labor Market Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “A burgeoning literature uses O*NET occupational characteristics to evaluate which jobs can be performed remotely and which jobs are likely to be at risk due to social distancing requirements (Béland et al., 2020; Dingel & Neiman, 2020; Mongey et al., 2020).”
Work from Home After the COVID-19 Outbreak (2020, unknown): “Based on occupation-level measures of work-from-home capacity and physical proximity at work, Mongey et al. (2020) predict that relatively more low-education and low-income workers would become inactive as a result of social distancing.”
Who suffers from the COVID-19 shocks? Labor market heterogeneity and welfare consequences in Japan (2020, methodology): “To compute the measure, we follow Mongey et al. (2020) and convert the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) to the Japan Standard Occupational Classification (JSOC).”
Job search during the COVID-19 crisis (2020, unknown): “As alternative home-working measures, we use the teleworkability indices based on ONET tasks from Dingel and Neiman (2020) and Mongey et al. (2020).”
How many jobs can be done at home? (2020, unknown): “The fact that the latter two cross-city correlations have the opposite sign of the corresponding cross-individual correlations reported by Mongey et al. (2020) underlines the importance of distinguishing between people and places when describing variation in economic conditions.”
COVID-19 and SME Failures (2020, background): “This approach follows Mongey et al. (2020) and Dingel and Neiman (2020).”
Supply and Demand in Disaggregated Keynesian Economies with an Application to the Covid-19 Crisis (2020, methodology): “The particular measure that we use builds on a measure at the occupation level constructed by Mongey et al. (2020) and closely related to that of Dingel and Neiman (2020), mapping occupations to sectors to come up with a measure at the sectoral level.”
The Impact of COVID-19 on US Firms (2021, background): “…markets (e.g. Chetty et al. 2020, Kahn et al. 2020, Cajner et al. 2020 and Barrero et al. 2020b), and its particularly damaging impact on women and lower educated groups (e.g. Adams-Prassl et al. 2020, Alon et al. 2020, Hupkau and Petronglo 2020, Mongey et al. 2020 and Sevilla and Smith 2020).”
Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis (2020, background): “Cajner et al. (2020; in this volume), Allcott et al. (2020), Chetty et al. (2020), Cortes and Forsythe (2020), Dey et al. (2020); Gupta et al. (2020), Khan et al. (2020), Kurmann et al. (2020), Mongey et al. (2020) and Lin and Meissner (2020) conduct exercises that are closely related to ours.”