EU jobs at highest risk of Covid-19 social distancing. Is the pandemic exacerbating the labour market divide?

Autor/inn/en	Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Branka, Jiri
Titel	EU jobs at highest risk of Covid-19 social distancing. Is the pandemic exacerbating the labour market divide?
Quelle	Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union (2020), ca. 44 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working paper series / Cedefop. 1
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISBN	978-92-896-2889-1
DOI	10.2801/968483
Schlagwörter	Soziale Distanz; Frau; Epidemie; Gesundheitsrisiko; Amtliche Druckschrift; Risikofaktor; Europäische Union; Arbeitnehmer; Ungelernter Arbeitnehmer; Weibliche Angestellte; Älterer Arbeitnehmer
Abstract	This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a new Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) was created based on skills descriptors that categorise jobs by their level of physical proximity to others and their digital intensity. It is conservatively estimated that about 45 million jobs in the EU-27 labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22% of the EU workforce - mostly medium- to lower-skilled service provision - is exposed to some significant risk. The burden of the Covid-19 social distancing risk falls disproportionately on vulnerable workforce groups, such as women, older employees, non-natives, the lower-educated and those employed in micro-sized workplaces. The findings call for immediate and targeted policy responses to prevent ongoing job losses and widening of labour market and social inequalities due to the pandemic.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2023/1