Working from Home and COVID-19: The Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps

Arntz, Melanie, Ben Yahmed, Sarra and Berlingieri, Francesco (2020) Working from Home and COVID-19: The Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps. Intereconomics, 55 (6). pp. 381-386. ISSN 0020-5346

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Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic causes a record number of people to work from home, this disruptive event will likely have a long-lasting impact on work arrangements. Given existing research on the effects of working from home on hours worked and wages, an increased availability of working from home may provide a chance for women to catch up with their male counterparts. Yet, the need to simultaneously care for children during the COVID-19 lockdown may also revive traditional gender roles, potentially counteracting such gains. We discuss the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender gaps in the labour market and at home in light of recent empirical findings and novel statistics on the heterogeneous structure of work arrangements among couples. We construct a novel teleworkability index that differentiates between fully teleworkable, partly teleworkable and on-site jobs and find that in about a third of households the COVID-19 shock is likely to induce shifts in the intra-household allocation of tasks from mothers to fathers.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	business, management and accounting (miscellaneous),economics, econometrics and finance (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1401
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2024 08:30
Last Modified:	16 Aug 2024 11:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96259
DOI:	10.1007/s10272-020-0938-5

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