Bryan Mark L, Bryce Andrew M, Roberts Jennifer
Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, 9 Mappin Street, S1 4DT, UK.
SSM Popul Health. 2021 Dec;16:100984. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100984. Epub 2021 Nov 29.
We provide new evidence about the work-related exposure of disabled people to COVID-19 using household survey data combined with a novel occupational risk indicator. Despite their higher clinical vulnerability, disabled people in employment in the UK were significantly more likely to be going out to work during the pandemic rather than working from home, and were working in occupations that were more exposed to COVID-19 than the occupations of non-disabled workers. Our results raise questions about whether there are sufficient safeguards for disabled people in the workplace, and have longer-term implications for a labour market where COVID-19 is a persistent health issue.
我们利用家庭调查数据并结合一种全新的职业风险指标，提供了有关残疾人与工作相关的新冠病毒暴露情况的新证据。尽管残疾人临床易感性更高，但在英国就业的残疾人在疫情期间外出工作而非居家工作的可能性显著更高，并且他们所从事的职业比非残疾工人的职业更容易接触到新冠病毒。我们的研究结果引发了关于工作场所是否为残疾人提供了足够保障的问题，并对新冠病毒仍是一个持续性健康问题的劳动力市场产生了长期影响。
