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Home sweet home : working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK
Deole, Sumit S.; Deter, Max; Huang, Yue - 2021
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced governments in many countries to ask employees to work from home (WFH) where possible. Using representative data from the UK, we show that increases in WFH frequency are associated with a higher self-perceived productivity per hour and an increase in weekly...
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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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The role of the workplace in ethnic wage differentials
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Bryson, Alex - 2021
minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not contribute to the aggregate wage gap between ethnic minorities …-setting on the part of employers. The use of job evaluation schemes within the workplace is shown to be associated with a smaller …
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The new industrial revolution : the optimal choice for flexible work companies
Becchetti, Leonardo; Salustri, Francesco; Solferino, Nazaria - 2022 - This draft: 27 April 2022
The forced remote working relationships experienced during the COVID-19 pandemics made employers and employees more aware of the productivity gains arising from the digital revolution. To investigate the characteristics of such gains, we model firms' production allowing companies to choose among...
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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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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, 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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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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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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