Emma Zang

Documents the enormous disparities in workers off sick from work that emerged across the labor market in the first months of the pandemic. Shows sicknesses increased in low-paying frontline occupations and occupations with little schedule flexibility. Workers in these jobs are disproportionately Black, Hispanic and Indigenous.

Shows that prior to the pandemic, shifting to remote work increased gender gaps in housework but decreased gaps in childcare. Remote work worsened mothers' work environments relative to fathers' as mothers more frequently report combining paid work and childcare.