Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico

Autores
Peluffo, Cecilia; Viollaz, Mariana
Año de publicación
2021
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The ability to work from home can be critical during pandemics. We calculate an index that measures the possibility of working from home based on the characteristics of the pre-Covid-19 pandemic distribution of occupations and on internet access at home, using microdata for Mexico. Focusing on households with two partners employed in nonessential occupations, we show that there is high within-household correlation in the possibility of working remotely, which is likely to be positively associated with job stability during the pandemic. Poor families, with low access to formal credit and who rely heavily on informal mechanisms for consumption smoothing have lower chances of working remotely than richer families with higher access to formal credit. High within-household correlation in the work-from-home index restricts the likelihood of intra-household risk-sharing and consumption smoothing, and is likely to contribute to an increase in inequality.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
Materia
Economía
Intra-household exposure to labor market risk
Work from home
Inequality
Covid-19
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
title Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
spellingShingle Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
Peluffo, Cecilia
Economía
Intra-household exposure to labor market risk
Work from home
Inequality
Covid-19
title_short Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
title_full Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
title_fullStr Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
title_full_unstemmed Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
title_sort Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Peluffo, Cecilia
Viollaz, Mariana
author Peluffo, Cecilia
author_facet Peluffo, Cecilia
Viollaz, Mariana
author_role author
author2 Viollaz, Mariana
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Economía
Intra-household exposure to labor market risk
Work from home
Inequality
Covid-19
topic Economía
Intra-household exposure to labor market risk
Work from home
Inequality
Covid-19
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The ability to work from home can be critical during pandemics. We calculate an index that measures the possibility of working from home based on the characteristics of the pre-Covid-19 pandemic distribution of occupations and on internet access at home, using microdata for Mexico. Focusing on households with two partners employed in nonessential occupations, we show that there is high within-household correlation in the possibility of working remotely, which is likely to be positively associated with job stability during the pandemic. Poor families, with low access to formal credit and who rely heavily on informal mechanisms for consumption smoothing have lower chances of working remotely than richer families with higher access to formal credit. High within-household correlation in the work-from-home index restricts the likelihood of intra-household risk-sharing and consumption smoothing, and is likely to contribute to an increase in inequality.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description The ability to work from home can be critical during pandemics. We calculate an index that measures the possibility of working from home based on the characteristics of the pre-Covid-19 pandemic distribution of occupations and on internet access at home, using microdata for Mexico. Focusing on households with two partners employed in nonessential occupations, we show that there is high within-household correlation in the possibility of working remotely, which is likely to be positively associated with job stability during the pandemic. Poor families, with low access to formal credit and who rely heavily on informal mechanisms for consumption smoothing have lower chances of working remotely than richer families with higher access to formal credit. High within-household correlation in the work-from-home index restricts the likelihood of intra-household risk-sharing and consumption smoothing, and is likely to contribute to an increase in inequality.
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