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What if working from home will stick? : distributional and climate impacts for Germany
Bachelet, Marion; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Koch, Nikolas - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest experiment in working from home. We study how persistent telework may change … full time from home. Our findings suggest that telework translates into an annual increase in heating energy expenditure of … telework but high-income workers gain twice as much as low-income workers. The value of time saving is between 1.3 and 6 times …
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299237
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation : micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509836
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951402
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442671
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Innovations Induce Asymmetric Employment Movements
Zwick, Thomas - 2008
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089749
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Business services in Germany : bridges for innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2000
During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445015
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615529
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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-15
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331883
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613463