Social Distancing,Labor Market Outcomes,and Job Characteristics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

作     者：Suqin Ge Yu Zhou Suqin Ge;Yu Zhou

作者机构：Department of EconomicsVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburgVA 24061USA Jinan University-University of Birmingham Joint InstituteJinan UniversityGuangzhou 511443China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·经济学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第15卷第4期

页      面：478-520页

学科分类：120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 12[管理学] 02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020207[经济学-劳动经济学] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020106[经济学-人口、资源与环境经济学] 

主　　题：work-from-home physical proximity social distancing employment COVID-19 

摘      要：This study investigates the role of job characteristics on an individual’s decisions to follow social distancing policies,work,and apply for unemployment insurance in the United States during the COVID-19 *** use data that track millions of mobile devices and their daily movements across physical locations to measure whether the devices’owners leave their homes,or work part-time or fulltime on a given day,and we also collect data on weekly unemployment insurance *** find that the presence of jobs with a high work-ffom-home capacity in a region increases the ability of people to follow social distancing policies and decreases their unemployment risk,whereas the presence of jobs with high physical proximity decreases the incidences of following social distancing policies and unemployment and increases the incidence of work during the *** heterogeneous responses based on local job characteristics persist even conditional on a broad set of demographic and socioeconomic variables.