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The impact of ICT on working from home : evidence from EU countries

Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufi, Montserrat - 2020

We use data from 14 European countries and provide evidence that the fall in prices of information and communication technologies (ICT) is associated with a significant increase in the share of employees who work from home. Similar results hold within age, gender, and occupation groups. There...

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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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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 …. Telework results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce time on commuting and grooming activities by over one …

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COVID-19, gender and labour

Corsi, Marcella; Ilkkaracan, Ipek - 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered simultaneously a global health crisis and a global economic crisis which have further deepened existing inequalities along several dimensions, including gender. Increasing gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work has been a primary outcome of the pandemic...

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The COVID-19 crisis and telework : a researchsurvey 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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Telework, wages, and time use in the United States

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021

telework status, but male teleworkers regardless of their work location on their diary day work slightly fewer minutes on …

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Telework and time use in the United States

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020 - This version: May 12, 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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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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Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: concentrated power and distributed knowledge

Cetrulo, A.; Guarascio, Dario; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019

Which type of work do Italians perform? In this contribution we aim at detecting the anatomy of the Italian occupational structure by taking stock of a micro-level dataset registering the task content, the execution of procedures, the knowledge embedded in the work itself, called ICP (Indagine...

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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic

Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2022

This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...

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