The impact of Covid-19 on (tele)work: evidence, cross-country perspective, and gender ramifications

The COVID-19 crisis created a sudden need for businesses and their employees to start or increase working from home. By facilitating teleworking from home, information, and communication technologies (ICTs) have been crucial in allowing economic activities to endure and enabling a significant portion of individuals to continue earning incomes. But outcomes were not the same across countries, social classes, age and gender.

As part of the LUISS ‘Geopolitics, Population and Technology’ course:
“The impact of Covid-19 on (tele)work: evidence, cross-country perspective, and gender ramifications”.

Discussants

  • Carmine Soprano, economist, World Bank
  • Alfonso Giordano, professor of Population, Sustainability and Technology, LUISS
    University, Rome.