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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
to working in the workplace. We further decompose homeworking into telework and bringing work home and find that the … effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking.In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both … received. The only positive effect of homeworking we discover is that telework reduces tiredness on weekdays. As to the …
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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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Telework and Time Use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
effects of teleworking on wages, and differences in time-use patterns between office and work-at-home workdays. We find that … some teleworkers earn a wage premium, but it varies by occupation, gender, parental status, and teleworking intensity …
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The Covid-19 Crisis and Telework : A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes
Baert, Stijn - 2020
teleworking, such as increased efficiency and a lower risk of burnout. The results also suggest that the overwhelming majority of … the surveyed employees believe that teleworking (85%) and digital conferencing (81%) are here to stay. In contrast, some …
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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
compute and provide home-working shares by occupation (US census classification, SOC and international ISCO classification …
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Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute
de Vos, Duco - 2017
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 congestion and transport related emissions, but they also stress that the … percent higher marginal cost of one-way commuting time, compared to non-telecommuters. We estimate the effect of telecommuting …
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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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