The potential for teleworking in Europe and the risk of a new digital divide by Santo Milasi, Martina Bisello, John Hurley, Matteo Sostero, Enrique Fernández-Macías published by VOXEU (8/2020).
The growth in teleworking seen during the Covid-19 crisis has been strongly skewed towards highly paid occupations and white-collar employment, raising concerns about the emergence of a new divide between those who can work remotely and those who cannot. Nonetheless, enforced closures of economic activities due to confinement measures resulted in many new teleworkers amongst low and mid-level clerical and administrative workers who previously had limited access to this working arrangement. This column presents new estimates of the share of teleworkable employment in the EU and discusses factors determining the gap between actual and potential teleworking – including elements of work organisation. It also discusses how telework patterns could develop in the future and related policy implications.
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Working from home: Estimating the worldwide potential by Janine Berg, Florence Bonnet, Sergei Soares published by VOXEU (05/2020).
Working from home can help mitigate the public health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This column estimates the share of workers across the different regions of the world who could potentially perform their activities from home, using a Delphi survey of labour market experts from across the world and then weighing these estimates by countries’ occupational shares. The analysis shows that approximately one in six workers at the global level, and just over one in four in advanced countries, could potentially work from home.
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Robots should be taxed, for a while by João Guerreiro, Sérgio Rebelo, Pedro Teles published by VOXEU (8/ 2020)
How should public policy respond to the impact of automation on the demand for labour? This column uses a theoreticalmodel of automation to study whether it is optimal to tax robots. It finds that it is optimal to tax robots in the short run but not in the long run in order to protect current routine workers who cannot acquire non-routine skills, while incentivising those in the future to acquire non-routine skills.
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