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Title: Working Remotely and the Supply-side Impact of Covid-19

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2020

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DOI: 10.3386/w27330

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Abstract: We analyze the supply-side disruptions associated with Covid-19 across firms and workers. To do so, we exploit differences in the ability of workers across industries to work remotely using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We find that sectors in which a higher fraction of the workforce is not able to work remotely experienced significantly greater declines in employment, significantly more reductions in expected revenue growth, worse stock market performance, and higher expected likelihood of default. In terms of individual employment outcomes, lower-paid workers, especially female workers with young children, were significantly more affected by these disruptions. Last, we combine these ex-ante heterogeneous industry exposures with daily financial market data to create a stock return portfolio that most closely replicate the supply-side disruptions resulting from the pandemic.

Url: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27330

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Authors: Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence D.W.

Series Title: NBER Working Paper

Publication Number: 27330

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

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