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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; Gao, Jia - 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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Telework and Time Use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 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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Telework and Time Use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce …This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily … on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity …
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With or without you: Divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278437
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What effects do macroeconomic conditions have on families' time together?
Morill, Melinda Sandler; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2012
We examine family time together using data from the 2003-2010 American Time Use Survey combined with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on state-level unemployment rates. Couple time together is U-shaped; while fathers spend more time engaging in enriching childcare activities without a spouse...
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Aggregate impacts of a gift of time
Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282259
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Measuring the relative productivity of multitasking to sole-tasking in household production: New experimental evidence
Foster, Gigi; Kalenkoski, Charlene - 2012
We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters under alternative incentive scenarios, designed to mimic...
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A gift of time
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287669
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Labor supply heterogeneity and demand for child care of mothers with young children
Apps, Patricia; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; van Soest, Arthur - 2012
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289925
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Immigrants' time use: A survey of methods and evidence
Ribar, David C. - 2012
This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It provides new descriptive evidence, using time-diary data from the American Time Use Survey....
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