Which Jobs Are Most Vulnerable to COVID-19? What an Analysis of the European Union Reveals

• Tác giả: Daniel Garrote Sánchez
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 351.4 Public administration
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 317949
• Chủ đề: 1. CORONAVIRUS; 2. COVID-19; 3. HOME-BASED WORK; 4. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; 5. PANDEMIC RESPONSE

Tóm tắt

 This Research and Policy Brief presents measures of labor market exposure to COVID-19 (coronavirus)in the European Union (EU) by identifying jobs in non-essential industries that cannot be performed from home. Jobs most at risk account for 30 percent of all EU employment. These jobs are concentrated in lagging regions
  tend to be low paid and less secure
  and are disproportionately held by young, poorly educated workers and migrants. In the absence of urgent large-scale remedial action, the COVID-19 (coronavirus) is likely to exacerbate preexisting socioeconomic and regional disparities.