Who and how many can work from home in Norway? Evidence from task descriptions

Arbeitspapier

The COVID-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work remotely (work from home) in an effort to increase social distancing. The ability to work fromhome has long been considered a perk, but we have few estimates of how many are actually able to work from home. This paper attempts to estimate the share of the Norwegian jobs that can be performed remotely by combining register-based labor statistics and the official documentationof the ISCO-08 standard. We find that approximately 39% of Norwegian jobs can be performedat home. The results suggest that the pandemic and the government's attempts to mitigate thiscrisis may have a quite uneven impact on the population. Those who are already disadvantagedare often less likely to have remote-friendly jobs and thus are hit more severely.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 935

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Other Spatial Production and Pricing Analysis
• Subject: Covid-19 ; Working from home ; Job advertisements ; Unconventional data ; Norway

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Holgersen, Henning ; Jia, Zhiyang ; Svenkerud, Simen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Statistics Norway, Research Department
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/249125
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET