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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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Mortality, Income, and Income Inequality Over Time in Britain and the United States
Deaton, Angus - 2001
We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in income inequality provide plausible explanations. Britain and the US had different patterns of income growth but similar patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality...
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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...
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