Zsofia Barany discussion of: Unsafe jobs
分类了不同职业的健康风险和劳动力市场风险，量化了工人在疫情期间的暴露程度，并探讨了国家如何保护高风险群体。
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been hugely heterogeneous across individuals depending on their job. The present paper classifies the health risk and the labour market risk associated with each job. The health risk depends on how likely it is that someone gets infected with COVID-19 while working, whereas the labour market risk measures the likelihood that workers performing these jobs will be (temporarily) laid off. Quantifying these risks is crucial, as they measure the exposure of workers employed in each job to the two most important risks related to the pandemic. The authors then characterize the individuals most exposed to these risks and finally investigate what the state can do to protect them. The authors categorize occupations into four health risk groups: going from the safest work-from-home jobs to jobs that require at most low physical proximity without and with contact with customers, finally to unsafe jobs that...