TY - BOOK ID - 137491250 TI - Jobs' Amenability to Working from Home : Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries AU - Hatayama, Maho. AU - Viollaz, Mariana. AU - Winkler, Hernan. PY - 2020 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Connectivity KW - Coronavirus KW - COVID-19 KW - Digital Divide KW - Economic Crisis KW - Home-Based Work KW - ICT KW - ICT Economics KW - Industrial Economics KW - Information and Communication Technology KW - Information Technology KW - Internet Access KW - Labor Market KW - Labor Markets KW - Labor Skills KW - Telework KW - Work and Working Conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137491250 AB - The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access at home as an important determinant of working from home. The findings indicate that the amenability of jobs to working from home increases with the level of economic development of the country. This is driven by jobs in poor countries being more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet connectivity at home. Women, college graduates, and salaried and formal workers have jobs that are more amenable to working from home than the average worker. The opposite holds for workers in hotels and restaurants, construction, agriculture, and commerce. The paper finds that the crisis may exacerbate inequities between and within countries. It also finds that occupations explain less than half of the variability in the working-from-home indexes within countries, which highlights the importance of using individual-level data to assess jobs' amenability to working from home. ER -