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Cardenas Rubio, Jeisson, Montana, Jaime and Bosworth, Derek L. (2021) Which workers are most exposed to covid-19 and social distancing effects in a dual labour market? Revista de Economía del Rosario, 24 (2). pp. 1-44. doi:10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/economia/a.10549 ISSN 0123-5362.
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Abstract
This paper provides evidence for the different potential effects of covid-19 on formal and informal employment, using the work-from-home (Dingel & Neiman, 2020; Saltiel, 2020) and the proximity occupation approaches (Mongey et al., 2020) in Colombia. We found that only 13 % of informal employment positions can be performed from home (remotely) and that the figure for formal employment is twice as large (20 %). We recoded the raw occupational responses of the Colombian Household Survey to a granular level to directly combine occupational information from two sources: O*net and step. We then calculated work-from-home estimates, extracting cohesive results from both sources. We investigated how personal and household characteristics relate to work-from-home and proximity and provide sound evidence for a larger effect on the informal population and its association with vulnerability (lower income and education levels, no internet access, poor working conditions). Standard employment policies will not impact directly on the most vulnerable populations in developing countries where informal employment is the norm.
Este artículo proporciona evidencia de los posibles efectos del covid-19 en el empleo formal e informal en Colombia, utilizando los índices de teletrabajo (Dingel & Neiman, 2020; Saltiel, 2020) y de proximidad (Mongey et al., 2020). Encontramos que solo el 13 % de los puestos de trabajo informal se pueden realizar desde casa (de forma remota) y mientras que esta cifra para el empleo formal es el doble (20 %). Para realizar las correspondientes estimaciones, recodificamos los títulos ocupacionales de la Encuesta de Hogares de Colombia para complementarlas con la información ocupacional de la o*net y step. Investigamos cómo las características personales y del hogar se relacionan con el trabajo desde el hogar y la proximidad y encontramos evidencia de un posible mayor efecto negativo en la población informal y en condiciones de vulnerabilidad (menores niveles de ingresos y educación, falta de acceso a Internet, insuficientes condiciones de trabajo). Asimismo, señalamos que las políticas de empleo estándar no afectarán directamente a las poblaciones más vulnerables de los países en desarrollo donde el empleo
informal es la norma.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Alternative Title: | ¿Qué trabajadores están más expuestos al covid-19 y los efectos del distanciamiento social en un mercado laboral dual? | ||||||||
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects, Occupations, Work | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Revista de Economía del Rosario | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Universidad del Rosario | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0123-5362 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 24 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-44 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/economia/a.10549 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 August 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 August 2022 | ||||||||
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