Work from Home After the COVID-19 Outbreak

By Alexander Bick, A. Blandin, Karel Mertens. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers, 2020

261 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Based on rich novel survey data, we document that 35.2 percent of the US workforce worked entirely from home in May 2020, up from 8.2 percent in February. Highly educated, high-income and white workers were more likely to shift to working from home and maintain employment following the pandemic. Individuals working from home daily before the pandemic lost employment at similar rates as daily commuters. This suggests that, apart from the potential for home-based work, demand conditions also mattered for job losses. We find that 71.7 percent of workers that could work from home effectively did so in May.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Modeling and Simulation

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Citations in the corpus

• COVID-19 Is Also a Reallocation Shock (2020, unknown): “20 The propensity to work from home in May 2020 rises sharply with earnings, according to Bick et al. (2020), Barrero, Bloom and Davis (2020), and the data that underlie Figure 3.”
• The Donut Effect of Covid-19 on Cities (2021, unknown): “2020, and Bick et al. 2020) or have surveyed managers about remote work (Ozimek, 2020a). De Fraja, Matheson, and Rockey (2020) look at the incidence of WFH across geographies in the UK.”
• Why Working from Home Will Stick (2020, unknown): “1 Drawing on several independently conducted surveys, Barrero et al. (2020), Bick et al. (2020), Brynjolfsson et al. (2020), and Ozimek (2020) find that about half of paid workhours were supplied from home in the Spring of 2020.”