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Personality traits, remote work and productivity
Gavoille, Nicolas; Hazans, Mihails - 2022 - This version: 01/08/2022
The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the link between personality traits and workers' productivity when working from home. We exploit a...
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Job separation and sick leave in the long-term care sector in England
Vadean, Florin; Saloniki, Eirini - 2021
Staff turnover in the long-term care (LTC) sector in England is perceived to be relatively high. Most job leavers do not leave the sector, but rather move to other LTC employers. Nevertheless, there are concerns that the high 'churn' has a negative impact on continuity and quality of care, care...
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Under pressure? : assessing the roles of skills and other personal resources for work-life strains
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ribar, David C.; Western, Mark - 2018
Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that additional resources would ease work-family constraints, theory and evidence regarding resources have been equivocal. This study uses data on working mothers and fathers - as well...
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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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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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Working from home and mental health : before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bilgrami, Anam - 2023
Robust evidence on working from home and mental health is lacking, with recent concerns it may blur work-home boundaries. Working from home was discretionary and less intensive in pre-pandemic years, while during the pandemic, it was often intensive and 'mandated'. I estimate the relationship...
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Working from home and job satisfaction : the role of gender and personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Mendolia, S.; Scicchitano, S.; Tealdi, … - 2024
In this paper we investigate the effect of working-from home (WFH) on job satisfaction. We use longitudinal data from Italy to estimate a difference-in-differences model, in which the treatment group includes individuals who transitioned to remote work in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey
Duman, Anil - 2020
We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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