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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,...

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Remote Work, Foreign Residents, and the Future of Global Cities

Guerreiro, João; Rebelo, Sérgio; Teles, Pedro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

As remote work opportunities expand, more people are seeking residence in foreign destinations. The resulting surge in foreign residents generates capital gains for property owners but negatively impacts renters and creates potentially important production, congestion, and amenities...

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The Evolution of Work from Home

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...

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Hustling From Home? Work From Home Flexibility and Entrepreneurial Entry

Barrios, John M.; Hochberg, Yael V.; Yi, Hanyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

the proportion of occupations amenable to telework in the region. Utilizing the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the … occupational mix that has higher potential for telework demonstrate less pronounced growth in new business formation, particularly … in areas with greater telework potential. Our results suggest a nuanced tension between the attractiveness of flexibility …

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Measuring Work from Home

Buckman, Shelby R.; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Headline estimates for the extent of work from home (WFH) differ widely across U.S. surveys. The differences shrink greatly when we harmonize with respect to the WFH concept, target population, and question design. As of 2025, our preferred estimates say that WFH accounts for a quarter of paid...

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The Big Shift in Working Arrangements : Eight Ways Unusual

Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic instigated a big shift in working arrangements. I first describe the scale of this shift in the United States, drawing on the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes and other sources. I then review differences, circa 2023, in work-from-home rates across industries,...

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Time Use, College Attainment, and The Working-from-Home Revolution

Cowan, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

I demonstrate that the profound change in working from home (WFH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is concentrated among individuals with college degrees. Relative to 2015-19, the number of minutes worked from home on fall 2021 weekdays increased by over 90 minutes for college graduates; for...

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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development

Atkin, David; Schoar, Antoinette; Shinde, Sumit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A growing literature explores the impact of home-based versus office-based work. Differences in productivity may arise due to a treatment effect of the office or from workers with different abilities sorting into office or home work. We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that...

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Political Partisanship and Remote Work : Evidence from U.S. States

Cowan, Benjamin; Garcia, Kairon Shayne D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

only a rich set of individual controls (e.g., occupational telework potential) but also several different state …

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers' Expectations and Preferences for Remote Work

Chen, Yuting; Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how COVID-19 affected the prevalence, expectations, and attitudes toward remote work using specially designed surveys. The incidence of remote work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels and both men and women expect this to persist post-pandemic. Workers also report increased...

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