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Work-from-home not a choice for poor, less educated

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Workers in jobs that can’t be done from home are without insurance and have low earnings, a US study suggests MUMBAI : Less educated and low-income workers are far less likely to be in jobs that allow them the work-from-home (WFH) or social-distancing options, and hence are more vulnerable during the covid-19 lockdowns, a US study suggests.

The share of workers without a college degree was 38 percentage points more in jobs without the work-from-home option than other jobs, the working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows.

Simon Mongey of the University of Chicago and others used data from the Occupational Information Network and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics to study demographics for such

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