How does the nature of work—teleworkability and contact intensity—shape the distribution of health, earnings, and unemployment risks, created by the COVID-19 pandemic? To answer this question, I consider two contexts. First, I show that the existing patterns of spousal occupational sorting...

What is the impact on firm revenue after prospective employees learn about incidents of racial prejudice in the workplace? Using job reviews for major U.S. stores and exploiting variation on reviews published during busy days, this paper shows that reporting one incident of workplace racial...

Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture significantly reduces the incidence of child labor and working...

This paper takes stock of existing data and research on the gendered dimension of teleworking, to foster efficient data collection and evidence-based monitoring of the phenomenon in the future. Analysing existing data on work from home, teleworking, teleworkability and preferences for work from...

We study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first semester of 2020 on the labor market outcomes of elderly workers, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We measure the gender gap in the conditional mean of the probability of experiencing a job...

Many applicants want a job with the possibility of telework. However, the literature is unclear on whether being explicit about this wish and the reason for it leads to negative consequences on hiring intentions. In this paper we therefore investigate how expressing a desire for telework, for...

This article asks what lessons can be learned from the introduction of the 35-hour week for the current debate in the steelindustry. In retrospect, it can be shown that a compromise in collective bargaining policy cleared the way from the 40- to the 35-hourweek. A package of shorter and more...

The paper provides new evidence on the ability to work from home (WFH) for hundreds of Dutch occupations and examines how WFH is related to various occupation-specific characteristics. This is done by linking several publicly available datasets from Statistics Netherlands, which contain...

RationaleChanges in working hours are one of the factors that determine the contribution of labour to an economy’s growth. It is therefore worth assessing whether the moderate downward trend observed in this variable over the last four decades is likely to persist.TakeawaysThe fall in average...

Algorithmic management has a clear potential to reduce time spent at work by increasing efficiency in task allocation and performance, and by replacing some forms of human labour. As a result it should, in theory, advance the implementation of working time reduction policies. Automation of...