%0 Report
        %A Angelucci, Manuela
%A Angrisani, Marco
%A Bennett, Daniel M
%A Kapteyn, Arie
%A Schaner, Simone G.
        %T Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Health
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13620
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13620
        %X This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high-frequency panel dataset from March through July of 2020, we show that job losses were up to three times as large for non-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without college degrees. Non-remote workers also experienced relatively worse respiratory health, which likely occurred because it was more difficult for non-remote workers to protect themselves. Grouping workers by pre-pandemic household income shows that job losses and, to a lesser extent, health losses were highest among non-remote workers from low-income households, exacerbating existing disparities. Finally, we show that lifting non-essential business closures did not substantially increase employment.
        %K COVID-19
%K employment
%K working from home