Using large, geographically representative surveys from the US and UK, we document variation in the percentage of tasks workers can do from home. We highlight three dimensions of heterogeneity that have previously been neglected. First, the share of tasks that can be done from home varies...

Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable occupations in the Swiss apprenticeship system to describe the broad job content in these...

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years in Germany in...

Zur Eingrenzung der Corona-Pandemie wurde die wirtschaftliche Aktivität stark heruntergefahren. Eine Ausnahme bilden dabei die sogenannten "system- oder versorgungsrelevanten" Bereiche, die durch besondere Regelungen umfassend am Laufen gehalten oder sogar ausgebaut werden. Welche Berufe jedoch...