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How the rise of teleworking will reshape labor markets and cities
Gokan, Toshitaka; Kichko, Sergei; Matheson, Jesse A.; … - 2022
in final goods production, can telework while unskilled workers, working in either final goods or local services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380462
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Workforce location and equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions
Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - 2015
workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342369
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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024
We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...
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Working from home, wages, and regional inequality in the light of COVID-19
Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206056
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Do commuting subsidies drive workers to better firms?
Agrawal, David R.; Jahn, Elke J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2024
An unappreciated potential benefit of commuting subsidies is that they can expand the choice set of feasible job … opportunities in a way that facilitates a better job match quality. Variations in wages and initial commuting distances, combined … with major reforms of the commuting subsidy formula in Germany, generate worker-specific variation in commuting subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486808
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How much do workers actually value working from home?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
inequality across education levels. Finally, valuations meaningfully interact with commuting distance and WFH reduces (but does … not close) the gender gap in willingness-to-pay to avoid commuting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013445443
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The isolated states of America : home state bias and the impact of state borders on mobility
Wilson, Riley - 2023
I document a new fact about mobility within the United States. County-to-county migration and commuting drop discretely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014393227
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The (Structural) Gravity of Epidemics
Cuñat, Alejandro; Zymek, Robert - 2020
Epidemiological models assume gravity-like interactions of individuals across space without microfoundations. We combine a simple epidemiological frame-work with a dynamic model of individual location choice. The model predicts that flows of people across space obey a structural gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219352
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Time savings when working from home
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502723
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Work-from-home and cities : an elementary spatial model
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2024
This paper analyzes the urban impacts of hybrid WFH in the simplest possible model, relying on Leontief utility and production functions and other simplifying assumptions. The analysis shows that introduction of WFH raises both the wage and land consumption of households while shrinking the size...
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