Labor Markets in Crisis: The Double Liability of Low‐Wage Work During COVID‐19
研究加拿大COVID-19经济停摆对工时的影响，发现低薪工人不仅平均工时大幅减少，而且只有他们出现工时增加的情况，形成双重负担。
We adopt a novel identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous effects of Canada's COVID-19 economic shutdown on hours worked across the earnings distribution. Early labor-market analyses found that workers in the bottom of the earnings distribution experienced a much larger reduction in hours worked than workers in the top of the earnings distribution. Our analysis reveals a double liability of low-wage work during Canada's COVID-19 economic shutdown: while workers in every quintile experienced a large reduction in hours on average, significant increases in hours were only present among workers in the bottom quintile. Implications for crisis income supports are discussed.