Will Working from Home Stick in Developing Economies?

Marina Conesa Martinez, Futoshi Narita and Chris Papageorgiou ()

No 2023/112, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: In developing economies, a shift to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic varies substantially. An increase in teleworking days per week ranges from 0.7 to 17.6 percentage points across 10 developing countries covered by an online survey to about 500 respondents per country. An estimated income discount associated with telework disappeared temporarily at the onset of the pandemic. A calibrated model indicates that workers’ preferences to telework may largely depend on their educational attainments. Whether telework will sustain in these countries could depend on obstacles to telework, particularly for workers with less education, and a degree of economy-wide externality.

Keywords: Telework share; income discount; Telework situation; employment status; income earner; COVID-19; Income; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44
Date: 2023-05-26
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