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Kuochih
Huang

Policy Research Specialist

Program Area

Low-Wage Work

About Kuochih

Kuochih Huang joined the Labor Center’s Low-Wage Work team in July 2020. Originally from Taiwan, Kuochih earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has conducted research for several labor organizations in Taiwan. Prior to graduate school, Kuochih worked as an assistant research fellow in the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), and a journalist covering public policy issues.

Publications
Press Coverage

November 30, 2020 -

Kuochih Huang, Tom Lindman, Annette Bernhardtand Sarah Thomason

Physical Proximity to Others in California’s Workplaces: Occupational Estimates and Demographic and Job Characteristics

In this research brief, we build on our previous research on essential workers, but use new data and broaden the analysis to the full range of occupations in the California labor market to help answer these questions: As the economy reopens, what levels of COVID-19 exposure risk will workers face when they return to their workplace? What are the demographic characteristics of these workers? And what jobs do they hold?

December 7, 2020 -

KRON 4

Berkeley study shows virus risk in workplace

About two-thirds of California workers will be within arm’s length of their colleagues and customers when the economy reopens fully after the pandemic, University of California at Berkeley researchers discovered.

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