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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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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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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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The intensity of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2020
This paper examines whether the intensity of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative economic consequences from COVID-19 and their...
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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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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
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COVID-19, working from home and the potential reverse brain drain
Bakalova, Irina; Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has ledto a substantial increase in the prevalence of working from home among white-collar occupations. This can have important implications for the future of the workplace and quality of life. We discussan additional implication,which we label reverse brain drain:the...
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2021
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, 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 workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650393