mechanisms to the two job-related "Covid-19 factors" systemic relevance (SR) and capacity to work from home (WfH). Based on bi …

We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing … countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the … characteristics. Patterns of actual work from home in data from Brazil and Costa Rica align closely with those predicted based on STEP …

-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich …

may be better able to continue their work from home. I identify the segments of the U.S. workforce that can plausibly work … three times less likely to be able to work from home than higher-wage workers. Those with lower levels of education, younger … from home by linking occupation data from O*NET to the American Community Survey. I find that lower-wage workers are up to …