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Working from home and the explosion of enduring divides: income, employment and safety risks

Working from home and the explosion of enduring divides: income, employment and safety risks Why are there so many non-teleworkable occupations? Is teleworking only a matter of ICT usage or does it also reflect the division of labour and the underlying hierarchical layers inside organizations? What does it happen to those workers not able to telework in terms of socio-economic risks, and how does the gender dimension interact with risk stratification? Hereby, we intend to shed light on these questions using a detailed integrated dataset at individual and occupational level (Indagine Campionaria delle Professioni, Indagine delle Forze di Lavoro and Inail archive) which provides information on different nature of risks (income, employment and safety). Our results entail that, first, class attributes, intended as execution of tasks, degrees of autonomy in doing the job, layers of the occupational categories, strongly influence the chance of working from home; second, those individuals who are not able to perform their work remotely are more exposed to transition to unemployment, to earn low wages, and to safety and health risks; third, being woman and employed with a temporary contract significantly amplify risk stratification. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Economia Politica Springer Journals

Working from home and the explosion of enduring divides: income, employment and safety risks

Cetrulo, A.; Guarascio, D.; Virgillito, M. E.
Economia Politica , Volume 39 (2) – Jul 1, 2022
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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1120-2890
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1973-820X
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10.1007/s40888-021-00251-7
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Abstract

Why are there so many non-teleworkable occupations? Is teleworking only a matter of ICT usage or does it also reflect the division of labour and the underlying hierarchical layers inside organizations? What does it happen to those workers not able to telework in terms of socio-economic risks, and how does the gender dimension interact with risk stratification? Hereby, we intend to shed light on these questions using a detailed integrated dataset at individual and occupational level (Indagine Campionaria delle Professioni, Indagine delle Forze di Lavoro and Inail archive) which provides information on different nature of risks (income, employment and safety). Our results entail that, first, class attributes, intended as execution of tasks, degrees of autonomy in doing the job, layers of the occupational categories, strongly influence the chance of working from home; second, those individuals who are not able to perform their work remotely are more exposed to transition to unemployment, to earn low wages, and to safety and health risks; third, being woman and employed with a temporary contract significantly amplify risk stratification.

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Economia Politica – Springer Journals

Published: Jul 1, 2022

Keywords: Occupational structure; Teleworking; COVID-19; Social divides; J2; D2; D63; I14; C38

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