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Indoor Air Quality and Cognitive Performance
Künn, Steffen - 2019
particulate matter on cognition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862117
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834567
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836574
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Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity
Gavoille, Nicolas; Hazans, Mihails - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030195
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Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees : A Factorial Survey Experiment
Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022
This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an … characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework possibilities. We find that the relationship between the possibility to … telework and job attractiveness is approximately linear: 10 percentage points more telework hours yield a rise of 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030826
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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Affects Job Stress of Rural Teachers
Li, Haizheng; Liu, Qinyi; Ma, Mingyu - 2021
This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods before and after the start of the pandemic and apply difference-in-differences type methods. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226787
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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134538
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion : Do Single-Sex Environments Affect Their Development?
Booth, Alison L. - 2011
Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118042
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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Christina - 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118274