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Who were the losers and winners during the Covid-19 pandemic? The rise of remote working in suburban areas

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  • Ilaria Mariotti
  • Dante Di Matteo
  • Federica Rossi

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The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly altered the habits and lifestyles of every citizen worldwide and will have effects in the medium to long terms. The need for ‘social distancing’ has negatively affected urban areas and encouraged a rescheduling of working methods. Knowledge-intensive activities have been massively undertaken on a large scale in remote working, mainly carried out at home. Within this context, the paper explores the changes in working modalities towards remote working by focusing on the Lombardy region in north-west Italy. Specifically, it explores the renewed suitability of the municipalities outside the regional capital city of Milan with regard to remote workers during the pandemic and compares it with the period before the pandemic, and also it analyses which determinants play a role. The results show that municipalities closer to Milan with a strong broadband connection, a high concentration of knowledge workers and foreign immigrants are more suitable for hosting remote workers.

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  • Ilaria Mariotti & Dante Di Matteo & Federica Rossi, 2022. "Who were the losers and winners during the Covid-19 pandemic? The rise of remote working in suburban areas," Regional Studies, Regional Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 685-708, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:685-708
    DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2139194
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    1. Bruno Trapanese & Ilaria Mariotti, 2022. "Socio-Cultural Hybrid Spaces in Milan Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic," Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Romanian Regional Science Association, vol. 16(2), pages 39-59, DECEMBER.

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