EU jobs at highest risk of Covid-19 social distancing - Is the pandemic exacerbating the labour market divide?

Which are the individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic.?

A CEDEFOP paper fresh from the press explores this question. See link below.
https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publication…

The findings from this paper call for immediate and targeted policy responses to prevent ongoing job losses and widening of labour market and social inequalities due to the pandemic.

Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a new Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) was created based on skills descriptors that categorise jobs by their level of physical proximity to others and their digital intensity.

It is conservatively estimated that about 45 million jobs in the EU-27 labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22% of the EU workforce – mostly medium- to lower-skilled service provision – is exposed to some significant risk.

The burden of the Covid-19 social distancing risk falls disproportionately on vulnerable workforce groups, such as women, older employees, non-natives, the lower-educated and those employed in micro-sized workplaces.