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The impact of right-to-work laws on long hours and work schedules

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Tan, Jian Qi - 2023

Unions play a crucial role in determining wages and employment outcomes. However, union bargaining power may also have important effects on non-pecuniary working conditions. We study the effects of right-to-work laws, which removed agency shop protection and weakened union powers on long hours...

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Trends in commuting time of European workers : a cross-country analysis

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020

This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those countries. Using data from several waves of the European...

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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 results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce …

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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...

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Telework, the timing of work, and instantaneous well-being : evidence from time use data

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2018

In this paper, we analyze the time allocation decisions of teleworkers, and compare them with their commuter counterparts. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003 to 2015, we analyze the time spent working, the timing of work, and the instant enjoyment experienced while...

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What do employers' associations do?

Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), their counterparts in many countries. Here we argue that EAs are important economic agents as they provide sectoral public goods such as collective bargaining, training, and...

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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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Drivers of working hours and household income dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of the Netherlands

Zimpelmann, Christian; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; … - 2021

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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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...

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Child health, remote work and the female wage penalty

Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2020

Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage...

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