COVID-19 and the labour market: What are the working conditions in critical jobs?

Dütsch, Matthias

doi:10.1186/s12651-022-00315-6

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Descriptive statistics on wages, physical proximity, working time patterns and physical working conditions

From: COVID-19 and the labour market: What are the working conditions in critical jobs?

		All observations		Critical workers		Noncritical workers
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Wages	Hourly wage	19.52	11.469	18.74	11.752	20.19	11.178
Physical proximity at work	Physical proximity to others	0.76	1.317	0.85	1.280	0.68	1.342
Physical proximity at work	Home office work	0.20	0.693	0.12	0.583	0.26	0.769
Duration of work and atypical working hours	Weekly overtime (in hours)	3.23	4.161	3.33	4.496	3.14	3.849
	Working hours usually between 07:00 and 19:00	0.71	0.455	0.63	0.482	0.77	0.420
	Only early or late shift work: working hours not between 07:00 and 19:00	0.10	0.304	0.11	0.317	0.09	0.291
	Shift work without night work	0.10	0.299	0.12	0.323	0.08	0.276
	Shift work and night work	0.09	0.287	0.14	0.343	0.05	0.223
	No weekend work	0.60	0.491	0.51	0.500	0.67	0.470
	Work on Saturday	0.17	0.380	0.17	0.372	0.18	0.385
	Work on Saturday and Sunday	0.23	0.420	0.33	0.469	0.15	0.355
Working time autonomy	Regular on-call or standby service	0.09	0.293	0.13	0.342	0.06	0.238
	Make own decisions about breaks	0.34	0.641	0.30	0.649	0.37	0.631
	Not expected to be accessible in private life	0.63	0.483	0.60	0.491	0.66	0.475
	Expected to be partially accessible in private life	0.15	0.354	0.15	0.357	0.14	0.351
	Expected to be accessible in private life	0.22	0.417	0.25	0.435	0.20	0.400
	Separation of work and private life possible	0.73	0.453	0.69	0.461	0.77	0.444
Muscular and skeletal strain	Working in a standing position	0.53	0.509	0.63	0.483	0.45	0.515
	Working in a sitting position	0.55	0.507	0.51	0.521	0.59	0.491
	Kneeling, bending, working over head	0.16	0.368	0.19	0.389	0.14	0.348
	Lifting and carrying heavy loads	0.20	0.403	0.26	0.439	0.16	0.363
Strain from the working environment	Noise	0.30	0.468	0.32	0.490	0.28	0.448
	Bright, poor, faint light	0.12	0.351	0.15	0.413	0.09	0.283
	Cold, heat, wetness, dampness, draughts	0.24	0.459	0.29	0.497	0.20	0.419
	Can influence the work tasks that must be carried out	0.35	0.587	0.31	0.585	0.38	0.587

Results are weighted
Source: Working Time Survey 2019; own calculations

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