Joan Monras discussion of: Unsafe jobs
讨论新冠疫情对不同类型工人的异质性影响，指出可居家工作者受影响较小，而政策制定者难以识别受影响工人以精准施策。
While some economic shocks affect different individuals in similar ways, most affect individuals very differently. A good example of this is how Covid-19 affected different types of workers. For workers who could work from home, the effects of Covid-19 were mild. This is for two reasons. First, their exposure to Covid-19 was low, given that they could reduce social interactions to low levels. Second, they could continue working and hence, their incomes also were likely to remain at similar levels, particularly if they were employed in essential sectors, that is, those that were not affected by policy mandates to shut-down production. A particularly difficult challenge that policy makers face is that, even if they agree that events such as the covid-19 pandemic have an extremely heterogeneous impact across workers, it is sometimes difficult to identify in the data how different workers are affected and hence, difficult to target the appropriate...