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DeVaro, Jed - 2024

In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises;...

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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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The evolution of work from home

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023

Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...

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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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Working from home, COVID-19 and job satisfaction

Laß, Inga; Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Wooden, Mark - 2023

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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Who Is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022

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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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...

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Working at home in Greece: unexplored potential at times of social distancing?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the public health shock as a laggard in digitalisation and remote work arrangements among European...

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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-fertility setting, which is well-known for the difficulty to combine...

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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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