The Role of Work-from-Home in the Gender Asymmetries of COVID-19 : An Analysis for Latin America Based on High-Frequency Surveys (English)

This paper studies factors that could account for the asymmetric impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America, by exploiting microdata from the World Bank’s high-frequency phone household surveys conducted immediately after the onset of the pandemic. The paper codifies the occupation variables in these surveys, constructs measures of the individual’s potential for work from home, and estimates fixed-effects models of job loss and other labor outcomes...
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Berniell,Inés; Gasparini,Leonardo Carlos; Marchionni,Mariana; Viollaz,Mariana.

The Role of Work-from-Home in the Gender Asymmetries of COVID-19 : An Analysis for Latin America Based on High-Frequency Surveys (English). COVID-19 (Coronavirus)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9887 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/611441639758697258

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