Gene

Labour economics

Demography

Inequality

Engineering

Microdata (statistics)

Complement (music)

Census

Economics

Biochemistry

Business

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Mechanical engineering

Complementation

Mathematics

Geography

Demographic economics

Work (physics)

Population

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Sociology

Mathematical analysis

Medicine

Chemistry

Disease

Phenotype

Pathology

Canadian Public Policy

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.

Remote Work and Employment Dynamics under COVID-19: Evidence from Canada