Author:
Hatayama Maho,Viollaz Mariana,Winkler Hernan
Abstract
We use skills surveys from 53 countries to estimate jobs’ amenability to working
from home (WFH). Our measure combines data on self-reported jobs’ characteristics and
home internet access into a standardized measure. We find that jobs’ amenability to WFH
increases with economic development. Women, college graduates, and salaried and formal
workers have jobs that are more amenable to WFH than the average. The opposite holds for
workers in hotels and restaurants, construction, agriculture, and commerce. We validate
our measure using longitudinal data from Chile and showing that WFH amenability
correlates negatively with job losses between 2019 and 2020 and positively with the
observed share of workers who worked from home in 2020. Finally, occupations explain
less than one third of the variability in the WFH measure and its components,
highlighting the importance of using individual-level data to assess jobs’ amenability
to WFH. JEL Classification Codes: J22; J61; O30
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Business and International Management
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