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Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy

buttler, dominik - 2019

We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey – Social Diagnosis – that contains rare indicators such as job...

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Telework, the Timing of Work, and Instantaneous Well-Being : Evidence from Time Use Data

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2018

In this paper, we analyze the time allocation decisions of teleworkers, and compare them with their commuter counterparts. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003 to 2015, we analyze the time spent working, the timing of work, and the instant enjoyment experienced while...

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Working from Home in Developing Countries

Gottlieb, Charles - 2020

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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Flexible Work Arrangements in Low Wage Jobs : Evidence from Job Vacancy Data

Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020

In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...

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Child Health, Remote Work and the Female Wage Penalty

Kouki, Amairisa - 2020

Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage...

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Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of Covid-19 on Employment and Health

Angelucci, Manuela - 2020

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high-frequency panel dataset from March through July of 2020,...

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Lockdown Accounting

Gottlieb, Charles - 2020

We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich countries to around 35% in poor countries. This gap...

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Covid-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence : Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power

Beland, Louis-Philippe - 2020

We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, Canadian Perspective Survey Series, that allow us to disentangle the mechanisms through which COVID-19 may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find...

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Telework and Time Use in the United States

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 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...

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The Covid-19 Crisis and Telework : A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes

Baert, Stijn - 2020

, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in telework. Therefore, we examined employee … perceptions of telework on various life and career aspects, distinguishing between typical and extended telework during the COVID … exceptional time of sudden, obligatory and high-intensity telework, our respondents mainly attribute positive characteristics to …

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