Essential occupations: what are the working conditions like? (Series "Covid-19 crisis: consequences for the labour market")

Abstract

"During the Covid-19 pandemic, some occupations have ensured basic functions in Germany’s economy and society. Although now recognised as “essential”, these heterogeneous occupations had so far hardly been analysed as a group. New research at the IAB and the European University Institute characterises working conditions in Germany’s essential occupations and finds that most of these jobs have relatively good working conditions. Yet a substantial share of jobs has bad working conditions, and here migrants are overrepresented." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Nivorozhkin, A. & Poeschel, F. (2022): Essential occupations: what are the working conditions like? (Series "Covid-19 crisis: consequences for the labour market"). In: IAB-Forum No. 09.08.2022 Nürnberg. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20220809.02