1 论文标题

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

2 作者信息

Suqin Ge

Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Yu Zhou

Jinan University-University of Birmingham Joint Institute, Jinan University

3 出处
Suqin Ge,Yu Zhou. Social Distancing, Labor Market Outcomes, and Job Characteristics in the COVID-19 Pandemic[J]. Front. Econ. China, 2020, 15(4): 478-520.


链接
http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/10.3868/s060-011-020-0021-3
http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/Y2020/V15/I4/478

4 摘要

Abstract：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 pandemic. We 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 claims. We find that the presence of jobs with a high work-from-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 pandemic. These heterogeneous responses based on local job characteristics persist even conditional on a broad set of demographic and socioeconomic variables.

新冠疫情中职业特征对社交隔离与劳动力市场表现的影响

葛苏勤，周宇

摘要：本文研究了在新冠疫情中美国劳动力市场职业特征对于个人遵守社交隔离政策、是否工作和申领失业保险等决策的影响。本文使用的数据追踪了数百万移动设备的物理位置和日常活动，并以此推断移动设备拥有者每天是否离家活动以及他们的兼职或全职工作状态。本文同时还收集了每周失业保险申领的数据。本文结果显示，在居家办公能力高的区域，人们更可能遵循社交隔离政策并且有较低的失业风险。与之相对，当一个区域的工作更多要求人与人近距离接触，该区域遵循社交隔离政策的严格程度和失业水平都会下降，同时人们在疫情中继续工作的机率上升。在控制了各地区人口和经济社会特征变量之后，这些基于当地职业特征的劳动力市场异质性仍然存在。

作者简介：

葛苏勤：美国弗吉尼亚理工大学副教授。她的主要研究领域为劳动经济学和中国经济，研究课题包括教育、劳动供给、工资结构、歧视及人口迁徙等，其研究广获资助。论文在 Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization等期刊上发表。她目前担任China Economic Review的副主编。

周  宇：暨南大学讲师。他的主要研究领域为劳动经济学和应用微观经济学，研究课题关注劳动力技能与教育。曾在Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization上发表论文。