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Does broadband internet affect fertility?
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using … German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of high-speed Internet …
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Working from home and commuting : heterogeneity over time, space, and occupations
Vos, Duco de; Ham, Maarten van; Meijers, Evert J. - 2019
Teleworking may increase the willingness to accept a longer commute. This paper presents new evidence of the effect of teleworking on the length of commutes. We use novel panel data from the Netherlands, for the years 2008-2018, and find stronger effects compared to studies that use older data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101919
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Working from home and the willingness to accept a longer commute
Vos, Duco de; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such findings inform us about the effectiveness … of telecommuting policies that try to alleviate congestion and transport related emissions, but they also stress that the … percent higher marginal cost of one-way commuting time, compared to non-telecommuters. We estimate the effect of telecommuting …
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Telework and time use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020
Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221778
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Telework and time use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework...
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Remote work, children's health and the racial gap in female wages
Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012874455
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Job satisfaction and work-life balance: differences between homework and work at the workplace of the company
Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2020
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253796
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Labour supply during lockdown and a "new normal": the case of the Netherlands
Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Holler, Radost; Janys, Lena; … - 2020
We document the evolution of hours of work using monthly data from February to June 2020. During this period, the Netherlands experienced a quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, enacted a lockdown for a period of six weeks and gradually opened thereafter. We show that during lock-down,...
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Work from home & productivity: evidence from personnel & analytics data on IT professionals
Gibbs, Michael; Mengel, Friederike; Siemroth, Christoph - 2021
Using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company, we compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased by roughly 30%, including a rise of 18% in working...
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Career or flexible work arrangements? : gender differences in self-employment in a young market economy
Buttler, Dominik; Sierminska, Eva - 2019
We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social Diagnosis - that contains rare indicators such as job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119559