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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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% of persons employed could telework, at least occasionally, and, consequently, there is considerable room for improvement …
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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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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214695
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,...
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