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Remote Work and City Structure
Monte, Ferdinando; Porcher, Charly; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the adoption of remote work within cities and its effect on city structure and welfare. We develop a dynamic model of a city in which workers can decide to work in the central business district (CBD) or partly at home. Working in the CBD allows them to interact with other commuters,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322881
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157532
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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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ICT, clusters and regional cohesion : a summary of theoretical and empirical research
Maignan, Carole; Pinelli, Dino; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2003
The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual … and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate …: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from the constraints of geography (Cairncross, 1997) bringing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591412
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221778
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Telework, wages, and time use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
telework status, but male teleworkers regardless of their work location on their diary day work slightly fewer minutes on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422934
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Telework and time use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020 - This version: May 12, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221029
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870290
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The effect of recent technological change on US immigration policy
Brey, Björn - 2021
Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue that as automation shifted employment from routine to manual occupations at the bottom end of the skill distribution, it increased competition between natives and immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622550
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The Effect of Recent Technological Change on US Immigration Policy
Brey, Björn - 2021
Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue that as automation shifted employment from routine to manual occupations at the bottom end of the skill distribution, it increased competition between natives and immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211737