Germany's capacities to work from home

Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck, Simone Schüller

Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and administrative data to compute measures for the feasibility of working from home among German employees. Breaking down the data by occupation, region, industry, and employee characteristics, we document considerable variation in the potential to WfH across all dimensions. We find that WfH is feasible for roughly 56 percent of the overall German workforce, while less than half of this potential was exploited in the pre-pandemic economy.

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Year of publication:	April 2020
Authors:	Alipour, Jean-Victor ; Falck, Oliver ; Schüller, Simone
Publisher:	Munich, Germany : CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute
Subject:	COVID-19 \| working from home \| Germany \| Deutschland \| Coronavirus \| Telearbeit \| Telework

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 19 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	CESifo working papers. - München : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 2364-1428, ZDB-ID 2065232-X. - Vol. no. 8227 (2020)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/216623 [Handle]
Classification:	D24 - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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