Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227264 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13737
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the ability to WFH is low in developing countries, it exhibits significant heterogeneity across and within occupations and worker characteristics. Patterns of actual work from home in data from Brazil and Costa Rica align closely with those predicted based on STEP data, in terms of both overall levels and variation with occupation and individual characteristics.
Subjects: 
remote work
work from home
tasks
occupations
COVID-19
JEL: 
J21
J22
O1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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