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
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- 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
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Economía
Intra-household exposure to labor market risk
Work from home
Inequality
Covid-19 - Nivel de accesibilidad
- acceso abierto
- Condiciones de uso
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Repositorio
- Institución
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
- OAI Identificador
- oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/130981
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Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico |
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Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico |
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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 |
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Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico |
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Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico |
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Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico |
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Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico |
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Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico |
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Peluffo, Cecilia Viollaz, Mariana |
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Economía Intra-household exposure to labor market risk Work from home Inequality Covid-19 |
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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 |
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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. |
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