Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 313
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822451
Cover Image
Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of Covid-19 on Employment and Health
Angelucci, Manuela - 2020
This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high-frequency panel dataset from March through July of 2020,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824996
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829938
Cover Image
Covid-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence : Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power
Beland, Louis-Philippe - 2020
We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, Canadian Perspective Survey Series, that allow us to disentangle the mechanisms through which COVID-19 may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831243
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834567
Cover Image
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835246
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835889
Cover Image
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836574
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952584
Cover Image
Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction
Lass, Inga; Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Wooden, Mark - 2023
This paper examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358689