Teleworking as a mitigator of the economic impacts of the CO VID-19 pandemic. The case of Argentina
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covid-19, labor market, teleworking, Argentina
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We estimate the role of teleworking as a mitigator of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic shock on the Argentine labor market. To that aim, we analyze the link between occupational-level teleworking potential scores, estimated from three different surveys (O*NET, PIAAC, and STEP) and labor market outcomes at the individual level, exploiting the rotating panel structure of the Argentine national household survey. We find that during the peak of the pandemic-related restrictions, the potential for teleworking was positively correlated with the probability of being active and employed. These effects are concentrated in the
subsample of “non-essential” workers. In contrast, we find no systematic effects of teleworking potential on employment transitions prior to the pandemic, a reassuring result consistent with our identification strategy.
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Adams-Prassl, A., Boneva, T., Golin, M., & Rauh, C. (2020b). Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock: Evidence from real time surveys. Journal of Public Economics, 189.
Albrieu, R (2020). Evaluando las oportunidades y los límites del teletrabajo en Argentina en tiempos del COVID-19. Buenos Aires: CIPPEC.
Avdiu, B., & Nayyar, G. (2020). When face-to-face interactions become an occupational hazard: Jobs in the time of COVID-19. Economics Letters, 197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109648
Barbieri, T., Basso, G., & Scicchitano, S. (2020). Italian workers at risk during the COVID-19 epidemic. Inapp Working Paper, 46, 175-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-021-00164-1
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Bonavida Foschiatti, C., & Gasparini, L. (2020). Asimetrías en la viabilidad del trabajo remoto. Económica, 66, 015. https://doi.org/10.24215/18521649e015
Cajner, T., Crane, L. D., Decker, R. A., Grigsby, J., Hamins-Puertolas, A., Hurst, E., Kurz, C., & Yildirmaz, A. (2020). The U.S. Labor Market during the Beginning of the Pandemic Recession. NBER Working Papers 27159.
CEPAL (Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe), CAF (Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina), DPL Consulting & Telecom Advisory Services. (2020). Las oportunidades de la digitalización en América Latina frente al COVID-19. Corporación Andina de Fomento.
Coibion, O., Gorodnichenko, Y., & Weber, M. (2020). Labor markets during the COVID-19 crisis: A preliminary view. NBER, w227017.
Corbacho, A., Garcia-Escribano, M., & Inchauste, G. (2007). Argentina: Macroeconomic Crisis and Household Vulnerability. Review of Development Economics, 11(1), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00384.x
Dicarlo, E., Bello, S. L., Monroy-Taborda, S., Oviedo, A. M., Sanchez-Puerta, M. L., & Santos, I. (2016). The Skill Content of Occupations Across Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Harmonized Data. IZA DP, 10224.
Dingel, J. I., & Neiman, B. (2020). How many jobs can be done at home?. Journal of Public Economics, 189.
European Commission. (2020). 2020 European Semester: Country-specific recommendations.
Fallon, P., & Lucas, R. E. B. (2002). The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes, and Poverty: A Review of Evidence. The World Bank Research Observer, 17(1), 21-45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3986398
Garrote Sanchez, D., Gomez Parra, N., Ozden, C., Rijkers, B., Viollaz, M., & Winkler, H. (2020). Who on Earth Can Work from Home?. Policy Research Working Paper, 9347. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34277 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
Gottlieb, C., Grobovsek, J., & Poschke, M. (2020). Working from home across countries. IZA Discussion Papers, 13737.
Guntin, R. (2020). Trabajo a distancia y con contacto en Uruguay. Rafael Guntin. http://www.rguntin.com/other/employment_uru/employment_uru_covid.pdf
Hale, T., Anania, J., Angrist, N., Boby, T., Cameron-Blake, E., Ellen, L., Goldszmidt, R., Hallas, L., Kira, B., Luciano, M., Majumdar, S., Nagesh, R., Petherick, A., Phillips, T., Tatlow, H., Webster, S., Wood, A., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Variation in Government Responses to COVID-19. Blavatnik School of Government Working Paper. www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/covidtracker
Hassan, T. A., Hollander, S., van Lent, L., & Tahoun, A. (2020). Firm-level exposure to epidemic diseases: Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1. NBER w26971.
Hatayama, M., Viollaz, M., & Winkler, H. (2020). Jobs’ Amenability to Working from Home: Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries. World Bank. http://www.worldbank.org/prwp
Hoynes, H., Miller, D. L., & Schalle, J. (2012). Who suffers during recessions?. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(3), 27-48.
INDEC. (2020). Mercado de trabajo. Tasas e indicadores socioeconómicos (EPH) Tercer trimestre de 2020. Trabajo e ingresos, 4(7).
Koebel, K., & Pohler, D. (2020). Labor markets in crisis: The causal impact of Canada's COVD19 economic shutdown on hours worked for workers across the earnings distribution. Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) Working Paper Series, 25.
Leibovici, F., Santacreu, A. M., & Famiglietti, M. (2020). Social distancing and contact-intensive occupations. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2020/march/social-distancing-contact-intensive-occupations
Lewis, D., Mertens, K., & Stock, J. H. (2020). US economic activity during the early weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak. NBER w26954.
Lo Bello, S., Sanchez Puerta, M. L., & Winkler, H. (2019). From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 8758.
McKenzie, D. J. (2004). Aggregate Shocks and Urban Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Argentina’s Financial Crisis. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(4), 719-758. https://doi.org/10.1086/381110
Milasi, S, González-Vázquez, I., & Fernandez-Macias, E. (2020). Telework in the EU before and after the COVID-19: where we were, where we head to. European Institute for Gender Equality. https://policycommons.net/artifacts/1950578/telework-in-the-eu-before-and-after-the-covid-19/2702347/
Mongey, S., Pilossoph, L., & Weinberg, A. (2020). Which Workers Bear the Burden of Social Distancing Policies?. University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper, 2020-51.
OIT. (2020). La COVID‑19 y el mundo del trabajo.
OIT. (2021) Observatorio de la OIT: La COVID 19 y el mundo del trabajo. Estimaciones actualizadas y análisis (7ma ed.). Ginebra.
Verick, S. (2011) The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Labour Markets in OECD Countries: Why Youth and Other Vulnerable Groups Have Been Hit Hard. In I. Islam, & S. Verick (Eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230295186_5
WEF. (2020). The Future of Jobs Report 2020. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2020
Weller, J. (2020). La pandemia del COVID-19 y su efecto en las tendencias de los mercados laborales. Documentos de Proyectos, 45759.
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de la Vega, P., & Gasparini, L. (2023). Teleworking as a mitigator of the economic impacts of the CO VID-19 pandemic.: The case of Argentina. Ecos De Economía, 25(53), 88–131. https://doi.org/10.17230/ecos.2021.53.5
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