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Remote work and high-proximity employment in Mexico
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Remote work and high-proximity employment in Mexico

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  • Lorenzo Aldeco Leo
  • Alejandrina Salcedo

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We show that in Mexico, larger shares of potential remote work at the municipality level are related to lower post-pandemic employment in high proximity consumer services, a large sector that mainly employs low-income workers. We use a triple difference event study design where we compare employment in high and low proximity sectors across municipalities with different levels of remote work potential, before and after the pandemic. Our results are not driven by changing patterns of consumption associated to Internet access during the pandemic. Since high proximity employment tends to locate in places where the propensity to remote work occupations is larger, such as cities, our estimates imply that remote work may have slowed the employment recovery from the pandemic in certain regions. A counterfactual where we reassign remote work potential equally across municipalities results in a more robust recovery in Mexico's service-intensive central region, which faced the steepest, most persistent drop in service employment. Our results suggest that if remote work remains an important feature of labor markets, consumer service sectors in cities in the developing world may face challenges stemming from these new work arrangements in the post-COVID era.

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  • Lorenzo Aldeco Leo & Alejandrina Salcedo, 2023. "Remote work and high-proximity employment in Mexico," BIS Working Papers 1133, Bank for International Settlements.
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    1. Leyva Gustavo & Mora Israel, 2021. "How High (Low) are the Possibilities of Teleworking in Mexico?," Working Papers 2021-15, Banco de México.
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    Keywords

    remote work; consumer services; middle-income countries; regional labour markets;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor

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