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Labor Dynamics and Actual Telework Use during Covid-19: Skills, Occupations and Industries

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  • Jean-Benoit Eyméoud
  • Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau
  • Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis
  • Etienne Wasmer

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We document the dynamics of labor-changes in employment and hours worked -and of actual telework use during the pandemic. We find that employment losses are unrelated to telework use starting in 2020-Q4. This is in stark contrast with the onset of the pandemic that disproportionately affected skills, occupations and industries with low telework use. Our findings are the results of two phenomena. First, labor is dynamically heterogeneous: employment of skill and occupation groups that are most affected by the initial Covid-19 shock recover quickly, catching up with the rest of the economy by October 2020. Second, the use of telework has homogeneously declined within skills, occupations and industries -by 40 percent on average- leaving the relative ranking of telework use across groups unaltered. Finally, there is substantial and persistent cross-industry heterogeneity in labor market outcomes one year into the pandemic that is unrelated to the use of telework.

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  • Jean-Benoit Eyméoud & Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau & Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis & Etienne Wasmer, 2021. "Labor Dynamics and Actual Telework Use during Covid-19: Skills, Occupations and Industries," Working Papers 1234, Barcelona School of Economics.
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    labor; dynamics; telework; skills; Occupations; industries; COVID-19;
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    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

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