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Title: At-Risk Workers of Covid-19 by Neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: This policy brief examines two employment sectors of the San Francisco Bay Area economy that have been heavily impacted the COVID-19 shut down. These two employment sectors are service workers in hospitality industry and sales workers in the retailing industry.8 These two sectors account for 1 in 8 workers of the SF Bay Area work force. As both sectors rely on faceto-face provision of services, both sectors have been largely shut down since shelter in place began on March 17, 2020. These workers clearly experience severe furlough, layoff, and unemployment. Employees in the retailing sector who continue to work in essential businesses also face potential exposure to the corona virus given the face-to-face nature of their work place through interactions with both customers and co-workers. This brief consists of two parts. The first part analyzes the socioeconomic characteristics of the workers in the two employment sectors compared to workers in other occupations and industries. Employees in the “Other”9 occupations and industries are expected to be less at risk to job loss and coronavirus exposure. This analysis is carried out at the level of the entire San Francisco Bay Area level.10 The second part examines the neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area by identifying census tracts with the highest concentration of at-risk workers in the two employment sectors.

Url: https://knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Covid-19SFBayArea.pdf

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Authors: Mar, Don; Ong, Johnathan

Publisher: UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

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