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Work from Home and Disability Employment
Bloom, Nicholas - 2024
There has been a dramatic rise in disability employment in the US since the pandemic, a pattern mirrored in other … microdata, we find the increase in disability employment is concentrated in occupations with high levels of working from home … increases full-time employment by 1.1% for individuals with a physical disability. A back of the envelope calculation reveals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072885
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Wealth Portfolios in the UK and the US
Banks, James - 2002
In this paper, we attempt to explain differences between the US and UK household wealth distributions, with an emphasis on the quite different porfolios held in stock and housing equities in the two countries. As a proportion of their total wealth, British households hold relatively small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469583
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Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK : Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference?
Banks, James - 2016
spite of income paths being similar. We explore several possible causes, including different employment paths, housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456166
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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space
Lambert, Peter; Hansen, Stephen; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246453
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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 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 language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247927