The Costs and Benefits of Home Office during the Covid-19 Pandemic - Evidence from Infections and an Input-Output Model for Germany
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jan Schymik, University of Mannheim (Germany); Harald Fadinger, University of Mannheim (Germany)
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Project Citation:
Schymik, Jan, and Fadinger, Harald. The Costs and Benefits of Home Office during the Covid-19 Pandemic - Evidence from Infections and an Input-Output Model for Germany. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-11-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E124902V2
Project Description
Summary:
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We study the
impact of working from home on (i) infection risk in German regions and
(ii) output using an input-output (IO) model
of the German economy. We find that working from home is very effective
in reducing infection risk: regions whose industry structure
allows for a larger fraction of work to be done from home experienced
much fewer Covid-19 cases and fatalities. Moreover, confinement
is significantly more costly in terms of induced output loss in regions
where the share of workers who can work from home is lower.
When phasing out confinement, home office should be maintained as long
as possible, to allow those workers who cannot work from home
to go back to work, while keeping infection risk minimal. Finally,
systemic industries (with high multipliers and/or high value added
per worker) should be given priority, especially those where home
office is not possible.
Funding Sources:
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) (CRC TR 224 (Project B6))
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Working from Home;
Input-Output Model;
Confinement;
COVID-19
Geographic Coverage:
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Germany
Time Period(s):
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2020 – 2020 (Spring 2020)
Methodology
Geographic Unit:
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NUTS 2 (Regierungsbezirke)
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