Employment, telework, and child remote schooling from February to May 2021: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

In this article, we use data on work and telework from a COVID-19 supplement to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 collected from February to May 2021. We examine whether the likelihoods of work and telework are associated with background characteristics related to demographics, education, geography, and prepandemic jobs. We also focus on differences between women and men and differences between individuals with children enrolled in school and those without children enrolled in school. Additionally, we examine factors associated with the likelihood of children in the individual’s household attending remote or in-person schooling. In March 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic triggered a crisis in the U.S. labor market on a scale not seen since the Great Depression (1929 to 1940).