Gallacher Guillermo, Hossain Iqbal
Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Can Public Policy. 2020 Jul 1;46(Suppl 1):S44-S54. doi: 10.3138/cpp.2020-026.
In this study, we find that 41 percent of jobs in Canada can be performed remotely, with significant variation across provinces, cities, and industries. We complement this finding with labour microdata and document facts on the relationship between the feasibility of remote work and income inequality, gender, age, and other worker characteristics. We then show that, under some of our specifications, workers in occupations for which the possibility of remote work is less likely experienced larger employment losses between March and April. This relationship however does not seem to hold for a different measure of the possibility of remote work or for employment losses across industries with different possibilities of remote work nor across provinces or cities with different possibilities of remote work.
在本研究中，我们发现加拿大41%的工作可以远程完成，且在各省、城市和行业间存在显著差异。我们用劳动力微观数据补充这一发现，并记录远程工作可行性与收入不平等、性别、年龄及其他劳动者特征之间的关系。然后我们表明，在某些设定下，远程工作可能性较小的职业中的劳动者在3月至4月间经历了更大的就业损失。然而，这种关系似乎不适用于远程工作可能性的另一种衡量方式，也不适用于不同远程工作可能性的行业间的就业损失，亦不适用于不同远程工作可能性的省份或城市间的就业损失。
