Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324097 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] PSL Quarterly Review [ISSN:] 2037-3643 [Volume:] 76 [Issue:] 307 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 373-392
Publisher: 
Associazione Economia civile, Rome
Abstract: 
Remote work has represented 'the' alternative to office work during the COVID-19 pandemic as it has (while enabling employees to fulfill tasks from home) prevented or broken contagion chains. Though not a new approach to work, the recent emphasis on telework has come with pleas to reduce the wages of remote workers. By means of a logical-analytical approach, the article analyzes why such policies are not only unjustifiable in terms of keeping average wages at an at least stable level, but even more if the final sales prices would not shrink accordingly and would boost the share of corporate profits to GDP. Even cutting wages and final sales could be "deflationary" first and "recessionary" then (i.e., impoverish the economy). The article preliminarily analyzes the economic impact of such proposals on countries with a large ICT sector contributing to GDP (i.e., where remote work is facilitated due to the wide diffusion of tools such as Internet connections, computer devices, etc., enabling it) and an underperforming labor market in terms of female participation.
Subjects: 
Average wages
COVID-19 pandemic
Income inequality
Remote work
JEL: 
E24
J8
011
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Document Type: 
Article

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