The effect of teleworking on employment in Ecuador during the 2019-2020 health crisis
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Telework, COVID-19, employment, Ecuadorian labor lawAbstract
This article offers a preliminary result of the effect of teleworking in the Ecuadorian labor market in the framework of the period between December 2019 and December 2020. Various sources of official information were used to define state action; the employment levels were extracted from the Bulletin of labor indicators published in December, 2020 of the Encuesta Nacional de Empleo, Desempleo, y Subempleo (ENEMDU) by Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC). The journalistic and bibliographic information was contrasted, compared, and strictly interpreted using heuristic matrices. Employment forecasts were obtained by exponential smoothing, and the net effect of teleworking on the Ecuadorian labor market in the taken reference period, by diff-in-diff. The data were processed in Microsoft Excel. The analysis concludes that teleworking had an important (~ 10%), although decreasing, effect on the reactivation of the Ecuadorian labor market affected by the health crisis due to COVID-19.
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