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Does telework stress employees out? : a study on working at home and subjective well-being for wage/salary workers
Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2018
to working in the workplace. We further decompose homeworking into telework and bringing work home and find that the … effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking. In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both … received. The only positive effect of homeworking we discover is that telework reduces tiredness on weekdays. As to the …
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Germany's capacities to work from home
Alipour, Jean-Victor; Falck, Oliver; Schüller, Simone - 2020
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202371
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What if working from home will stick? : distributional and climate impacts for Germany
Bachelet, Marion; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Koch, Nikolas - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest experiment in working from home. We study how persistent telework may change … energy and transport consumption and costs in Germany to assess the distributional and environmental implications when … full time from home. Our findings suggest that telework translates into an annual increase in heating energy expenditure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604137
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Personnel adjustments during the COVID-19 pandemic: did co-determination make a difference?
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Stegmaier, Jens - 2021
Using a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703116
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Teleworking and life satisfaction during COVID-19 : the importance of family structure
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, … - 2022
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average...
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Labour mobility in German establishments during the COVID-19 crisis : panel data analyses with special reference to short-time work and working from home
Bellmann, Lisa; Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2023
Using 21 waves of German high-frequency establishment panel data collected during the COVID-19 crisis, we investigate the effects of short-time work (STW) and working from home (WFH) on hiring, firings, resignations and excess labour turnover (or churning). Thus, we enquire whether STW avoids...
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Culture of trust and division of labor
Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015
Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...
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The hold-down problem and the boundaries of the firm : lessons from a hidden action model with endogenous outside option
Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...
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Aligning ambition and incentives
Koch, Alexander K. (contributor);  … - 2005
In many economic situations several principals contract with the same agents sequentially. Asymmetric learning about agents' abilities provides the first principal with an informational advantage and has profound implications for the design of incentive contracts. We show that the principal...
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Crime and networks: 10 policy lessons
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Zenou, Yves - 2019
Social network analysis can help us understand more about the root causes of delinquent behavior and crime and provide practical guidance for the design of crime prevention policies. To illustrate these points, we first present a selective review of several key studies and findings from the...
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