Who will Bear the Brunt of Lockdown Policies? Evidence from Tele-workability Measures Across Countries

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla‐Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma

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“…The March 2020 poll mentioned earlier also shows disparities across income groups (Table 5). As for cross-country evidence, both Dingel and Neiman (2020) and Brussevich et al (2020) found a positive relationship between country-level per capita income and the ability to work from home.…”

Section: Work From Home and Other Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 95%

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The coronavirus crisis and the technology sector

Evans

2020

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The coronavirus crisis has created a profound shift in how people interact and economies function. Policy mandates and fears of becoming infected or infecting others have impelled populations to shelter at home, socially distance, and otherwise reduce direct, in-person interactions with others. By enabling people to conduct many regular activities remotely, including working, learning, shopping, and receiving medical services, technology has allowed the continuation of some semblance of a normal lifestyle in this new environment. Within this context, the IT sector has provided the tools and resources required to support these remote activities, as well as to address the pandemic more directly through efforts such as supporting contact tracing and providing high-performance computing resources for COVID-19-related research. This paper discusses in more detail this impact of the pandemic on the technology industry, and its response to this shock, by addressing three elements: accelerated digital transformation, increased importance of technology in the economy and society, and prevalence of inequalities in access to and the use of technology.

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Section: Work From Home and Other Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…The reported share for the USA was 42%. Brussevich et al (2020) also construct measures of "teleworkability" across countries, types of workers and occupations, finding a high degree of variation across all of these elements, with teleworkability increasing with GDP per capita and educational attainment. Fig.…”

Section: Working From Homementioning

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The coronavirus crisis and the technology sector

Evans

2020

Bus Econ

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“…Goldberg and Reed (2020) show that deaths-per-capita depend positively on GDP-per-capita and negatively on the share of young population. 2 On the other hand, Brussevich et al (2020) estimate that workers in emerging economies have a lower index of feasibility to work from home and are at a higher risk of layoff.…”

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“…Higher prevalence of informality makes it harder to identify and provide support to individuals at risk; in addition, in such an environment the efficiency and compliance with de jure NPIs is lower, as empirically shown by Maloney and Taskin (2020). See also IMF (2020) and Cakmakli et al (2020) for a discussion on policy responses in EMDEs, Loayza (2020) for tradeoffs faced by developing countries, Kalemli-Ozkan (2020) for measures to support small business, and Brussevich et al (2020) for demographic-related aspects.…”

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COVID-19 Impact and Mitigation Policies

Ansah¹,

Epstein²,

Nalban³

2020

IMF Working Papers

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We develop an integrated epidemiological-macroeconomic model to analyze the interplay between the COVID-19 outbreak and economic activity, as a tool for capacity building purposes. We illustrate a workhorse framework that combines a rich epidemiological model with an economic block to shed light on the tradeoffs between saving lives and preserving economic outcomes under various mitigation policies and scenarios calibrated for emerging market and developing economies. In our benchmark setup, we link the effective contact frequency and labor supply decisions to the current state of the disease progression, allowing for relevant behavioral responses that introduce multiple feedback channels. We showcase the effects of various “smart” mitigation measures, e.g. improved quarantine capacity or targeted labor market restrictions, to alleviate the tradeoffs between health-related outcomes and economic activity, including in response to a second infection wave. The discovery of treatment or vaccine, and the possibility of temporary immunity for the recovered individuals are also considered. The model is further extended to a multisector framework to analyze the sectoral allocation effects of the COVID-19 shock.

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“…In contrast, MSAs with more diverse industrial structure within major industrial sectors tended to perform worse in terms of online job announcements. This sets the ongoing crisis apart from the previous global downturns of economic activity when industrial diversity contributed to regional economic resilience in the US (Brown and Greenbaum, 2017 [30]; Deller and Watson, 2016 [21]). The very different nature of the crisis (emanating from a healthcare emergency coupled with the efforts to curb the spread of the virus via severe restrictions on economic and social life) could be one of the explanations for the observed association.…”

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OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers

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Martinez-Fernandez

Sharpe

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This paper explores patterns of short-term labour demand weakening in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) of the United States and the associated regional factors. The paper considers online job vacancy postings in February-June 2020. The data show that in larger MSAs, online job postings contracted more and the recovery was slower compared to smaller MSAs. Non-tradable service occupations, particularly those involving face-to-face interactions, contracted the most. The regression analysis reveals that different metropolitan characteristics were associated with the initial drop (February-April) and the recovery (May-June) in online job posting. The associations of online job postings with regional characteristics also differed between teleworkable (with high feasibility of performing work duties remotely) and non-teleworkable jobs. Cities with higher share of teleworkable employment had more online vacancy announcements during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Who will Bear the Brunt of Lockdown Policies? Evidence from Tele-workability Measures Across Countries

Cited by 66 publications

References 6 publications

The coronavirus crisis and the technology sector

The coronavirus crisis and the technology sector

COVID-19 Impact and Mitigation Policies

OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers

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