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Digital divide or digital provide? : technology, time use and learning loss during COVID-19
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Bhattacharjee, Anindita - 2022
COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on primary and secondary school children in slum and rural...
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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
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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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Work that can be done from home: evidence on variation within and across occupations and industries
Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2020
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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How does the COVID-19 crisis affect labor demand? : an analysis using job board data from Austria
Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2020
. Both measures are highly correlated with telework references in job ads and yield comparable estimates for the differential …
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The COVID-19 crisis and telework : a research survey on experiences, expectations and hopes
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Moens, Eline; Sterkens, … - 2020
, 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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Did COVID-19 (permanently) raise the demand for "teleworkable" jobs?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Brunetti, Irene; Corvasce, Alessandro - 2024
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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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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Telework during the pandemic : patterns, challenges, and opportunities for people with disabilities
Ameri, Mason; Kruse, Douglas L.; Park, So Ri; Rodgers, … - 2022
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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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....
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