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Working from Home During a Pandemic - A Discrete Choice Experiment in Poland

Lewandowski, Piotr; Lipowska, Katarzyna; Smoter, Mateusz - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed working from home from a rarity to a widely adopted job amenity. We study workers' willingness to pay for working from home, and how it may be affected by subjective and objective assessments of COVID-19-related risks. We conducted a discrete choice...

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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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Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute

de Vos, Duco - 2017

It is generally found that workers are more inclined to accept a job that is located farther away from home if they have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such findings inform us about the effectiveness of telecommuting policies that try to alleviate...

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Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction

Laß, Inga; Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Wooden, Mark - 2023

This paper examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models...

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Telework During the Pandemic : Patterns, Challenges, and Opportunities for People with Disabilities

Ameri, Mason; Kruse, Douglas; Park, So; Rodgers, Yana; … - 2022

Telework has benefits for many people with disabilities. The pandemic may create new employment opportunities for … people with disabilities by increasing employer acceptance of telework, but this crucially depends on the occupational … structure. We compare people with and without disabilities in the expansion of telework as the pandemic began, and the evolution …

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The Uneven Effect of COVID School Closures : Parents in Teleworkable vs. Non-Teleworkable Occupations

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2022

Teleworking parents can better monitor and help their children with online learning. In this paper, I test whether parents' teleworkability affected children's online learning during Covid school closures. I use panel data from Invalsi, which includes the results of standardized tests given to...

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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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The Short-Term Economic Consequences of Covid-19 : Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe - 2020

In this paper, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on labour market outcomes in Canada. Following a pre-analysis plan, we investigate the negative impact of the pandemic on unemployment, labour force participation, hours and wages in Canada. We find that COVID-19 had drastic negative...

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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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