TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bloom, Nicholas
AU  - Dahl, Gordon B.
AU  - Rooth, Dan-Olof
        TI  - Work from Home and Disability Employment
        PY  - 2026/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18555
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18555
        AB  - There has been a dramatic rise in disability employment since the pandemic. At the same time, work from home (WFH) has risen four-fold. This paper asks whether the two are causally related. Controlling for compositional changes and labor market tightness, a 1 percentage point increase in WFH increases full-time employment by 1.0% for individuals with a physical disability. The postpandemic increase in working from home explains 68%-85% of the rise in full-time employment. Wage data suggests that WFH increased the supply of workers with a physical disability, likely by reducing commuting costs and enabling better control of working conditions.
        KW  - work from home
KW  - disability employment
        ER  -