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Lockdown Accounting
Gottlieb, Charles - 2020
We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich countries to around 35% in poor countries. This gap...
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Telework and Time Use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 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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The Covid-19 Crisis and Telework : A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes
Baert, Stijn - 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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Who Can Work from Home?
Yasenov, Vasil I. - 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states have adopted stay-at-home orders, rendering a large segment of the workforce unable to continue doing their jobs. These policies have distributional consequences, as workers in some occupations may be better able to continue their work from home....
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The Short-Term Economic Consequences of Covid-19 : Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response
Beland, Louis-Philippe - 2020
In this ongoing project, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document the impact of COVID-19 at the national-level using a simple difference and test whether states with relatively more confirmed...
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Germany's Capacities to Work from Home
Alipour, Jean-Victor - 2020
Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and administrative data to compute measures for the feasibility of working from home among German employees....
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Which Jobs are Done from Home? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
Which jobs are more likely to be affected by mobility restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic? This paper uses American Time Use Survey data to measure the share of the work hours that are spent at home for different job categories. We compute and provide home-working shares by occupation (US...
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Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute
de Vos, Duco - 2017
It is generally found that workers are more inclined to accept a job that is located farther away from home if they have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such findings inform us about the effectiveness of telecommuting policies that try to alleviate...
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Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers
Song, Younghwan - 2018
effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking.In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both … to working in the workplace. We further decompose homeworking into telework and bringing work home and find that the … received. The only positive effect of homeworking we discover is that telework reduces tiredness on weekdays. As to the …
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Working from Home in Developing Countries
Gottlieb, Charles - 2020
We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the ability to WFH is low in developing countries, it...
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