Die Digitalisierung stellt die Gesellschaft vor neue, große Herausforderungen. Neben der Digitalisierung von einzelnen Produktions- und Arbeitsprozessen, führt sie auch zu strukturellen, teils fundamentalen Veränderungen der Erwerbstätigkeit. Die Grenzen zwischen Selbstständigkeit und einer...

The present study analyzes workers' reasons for not working from home in German workplaces. We ask to what degree cultural barriers, besides technical barriers, are reasons for not working from home. The analyses are based on the second wave (2014-15) of the German Linked Personnel Panel (LPP)....

Between 2003 and 2015, the labor force participation rate of women in Bangladesh increased from 26.0% to 35.6%. On further analysis, we find that much of this gain was due to an increasing number of women working from home. We use the model proposed by Edwards and Field-Hendrey (2002) to study...

Weil es in vielen Bereichen nicht notwendig ist, seinen Beruf zu festen Kernarbeitszeiten von einem Arbeitsplatz in den Räumlichkeiten des Arbeitsgebers auszuüben, entwickelte sich 2005 als logische Fortführung anderer flexibler Arbeitsformen das Konzept des Coworking. Da hierzu kaum...

This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s, focusing on the presence of ICT technologies in households -in particular modempossession.To investigate these determinants, a sequential hurdle model is estimated where people first...

We analyze the welfare effects of part-day teleworking on road traffic congestion in the context of Vickrey's dynamic bottleneck model. Endogenous decisions to become equipped with a teleworking-enabling technology change the scheduling of arrival times at work for equipped drivers and, due to...