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more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access …
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more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access …
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The COVID-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work remotely (work from home) in an effort to increase social distancing. The ability to work fromhome has long been considered a perk, but we have few estimates of how many are actually able to work from home....
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possessing higher levels of skills are significantly more likely to telework in OECD countries. We show that while 30% of workers … could telework across the OECD, the likelihood decreases for workers without tertiary education and with lower levels of …
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We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the ability to WFH is low in developing countries, it...
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Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage workers … possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing, remote work, virtual companies, and platforms. A model illustrates how new …
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telework. Firms are the largest source of variance in remote job offerings relative to other obvious alternatives … influenced the rate of telework adoption. …
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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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We use the most recent wave of the German Qualifications and Career Survey and reveal a substantial wage premium in a Mincer regression for workers performing their job from home. The premium persists within narrowly defined jobs and after controlling for workplace activities and accounts to...
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