COVID-19: How Important is Education for Social Distancing and Remote Work

Frank Crowley, Justin Doran and Geraldine Ryan
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Geraldine Ryan: University College Cork

The Economic and Social Review, 2021, vol. 52, issue 2, 217-239

Abstract: Public health interventions such as occupational social distancing and remote working, while critical to slow the spread of the coronavirus, are severely disrupting labour markets. We examine the impact of educational attainment on a worker’s potential to engage in both occupational social distancing in the workplace and working from home requirements for the Irish case. We identify that remote working has a more significant economic effect on labour market inequalities than occupational social distancing. In fact, the results indicate the relationship between occupational social distancing and differences in worker demographics are small. Remote working inequalities are primarily related to differences in individual education levels and a worker’s gender.

Keywords: COVID-19; public health policy; education levels; labour market; Ireland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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