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The role of institutions in job teleworkability before and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Norlander, Peter; Erickson, Christopher - 2022
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 new industrial revolution : the optimal choice for flexible work companies
Becchetti, Leonardo; Salustri, Francesco; Solferino, Nazaria - 2022 - This draft: 27 April 2022
The forced remote working relationships experienced during the COVID-19 pandemics made employers and employees more aware of the productivity gains arising from the digital revolution. To investigate the characteristics of such gains, we model firms' production allowing companies to choose among...
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Did COVID-19 (permanently) raise the demand for "teleworkable" jobs?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Brunetti, Irene; Corvasce, Alessandro - 2024
This study leverages detailed administrative data on firms' job flows and variation across Local Labor Markets (LLMs) in the spread of COVID-19 to investigate shifts in labor demand prompted by the pandemic. To this end, we exploit the large spatial variation in the intensity of the pandemic...
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The impact of ICT on working from home : evidence from EU countries
Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufi, Montserrat - 2020
We use data from 14 European countries and provide evidence that the fall in prices of information and communication technologies (ICT) is associated with a significant increase in the share of employees who work from home. Similar results hold within age, gender, and occupation groups. There...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
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The intensity of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2020
This paper examines whether the intensity of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative economic consequences from COVID-19 and their...
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Economic effects of overtime premium flexibility : firm- and worker-level evidence from a law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
In 2012, a new law allowed firms in Portugal to reduce the overtime premium paid by half. Until then, as in other countries, premiums were subject to a minimum level. We analyse matched panel data, including worker-level (base and overtime) hours and pay, to study the effects of the resulting...
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Working 37.5 hours per week : who truly gains from Spain’s new workweek reform?
Narazani, Edlira - 2025
In December 2024, Spain's government reached an agreement with the country's major trade unions to reduce the standard workweek to 37.5 hours without wage cuts by the end of 2025. This paper provides an ex-ante assessment of the proposed reform using EUROLAB, a discrete choice labour supply...
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Who is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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The COVID-19 crisis and telework : a researchsurvey on experiences, expectations and hopes
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Moens, Eline; Sterkens, … - 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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