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This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for … the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods before and after the start of the pandemic … and apply difference-in-differences type methods. We find that, among rural young teachers, the pandemic has caused higher …
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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...
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Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices--parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home -- and a substantially lower rate of individual-level...
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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...
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The changing nature of work, accelerated by the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in several fundamental …
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In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period … did more household production, suggesting they shared the increased work burden resulting from the pandemic more equally …
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estimates also have implications for the costs of social distancing during a pandemic and may be especially applicable when …
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Telework has benefits for many people with disabilities. The pandemic may create new employment opportunities for … structure. We compare people with and without disabilities in the expansion of telework as the pandemic began, and the evolution … of telework during the pandemic. We use U.S. data from the American Community Survey from 2008 to 2020 and the Current …
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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 a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates … works council. In contrast, the net employment growth rate over the pandemic and the implementation of short-time work did …-determination did indeed make a difference in terms of higher employment stability for the incumbent workforce during the pandemic. …
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