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Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...
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In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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Using large, geographically representative surveys from the US and UK, we document variation in the percentage of tasks workers can do from home. We highlight three dimensions of heterogeneity that have previously been neglected. First, the share of tasks that can be done from home varies...
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. Both measures are highly correlated with telework references in job ads and yield comparable estimates for the differential …
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, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in telework. Therefore, we examined employee … perceptions of telework on various life and career aspects, distinguishing between typical and extended telework during the COVID … exceptional time of sudden, obligatory and high-intensity telework, our respondents mainly attribute positive characteristics to …
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This study leverages detailed administrative data on firms' job flows and variation across Local Labor Markets (LLMs) in the spread of COVID-19 to investigate shifts in labor demand prompted by the pandemic. To this end, we exploit the large spatial variation in the intensity of the pandemic...
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This paper examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models...
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Telework has benefits for many people with disabilities. The pandemic may create new employment opportunities for … people with disabilities by increasing employer acceptance of telework, but this crucially depends on the occupational … structure. We compare people with and without disabilities in the expansion of telework as the pandemic began, and the evolution …
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Telework has gained increasing popularity in recent years, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic, and is often … trips. This paper examines the relationship between telework and daily travel time, utilizing data from the 2023 Extended … working away from home, a result that remains robust even after excluding daily commuting time, suggesting that telework may …
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Using customized panel data spanning the entire year of 2020, we analyze the dynamics of working hours and household income across different stages of the CoVid-19 pandemic. Similar to many other countries, during this period the Netherlands experienced a quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,...
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