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countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic …
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We use the most recent wave of the German Qualifications and Career Survey and reveal a substantial wage premium in a Mincer regression for workers performing their job from home. The premium persists within narrowly defined jobs and after controlling for workplace activities and accounts to...
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input for regional or sectoral analyses investigating the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and labor market adjustments …
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The pandemic triggered a large, lasting shift to work from home (WFH). To study this shift, we survey full-time workers … pandemic, but workers want 1.7 days. Third, employees value the option to WFH 2-3 days per week at 5 percent of pay, on average … favorably surprised by their WFH productivity during the pandemic. Fifth, looking across individuals, employer plans for WFH …
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per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will save about one hour per week per worker after the pandemic ends …
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Does removing the constraints of time and place of work increase the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible space and time job (which we call...
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Whether or not the use of remote work increases firm labour productivity is theoretically ambiguous. We use a rich and representative sample of Portuguese firms, and within-firm variation in the policy on remote work, over the period 2011-2016, to empirically assess the causal productivity...
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We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...
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The long-term trend toward more work from home due to digitization has found a strong new driver, the Covid-19 pandemic …
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legal rules for the sourcing of income can affect telework-induced mobility, but conclude that, regardless of which sourcing …
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