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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 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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Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic : Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations

von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin - 2020

Using a survey module administered in late March 2020, we analyze how working hours change under the social distancing regulations enacted to fight the COViD-19 pandemic. We study the Netherlands, which are a prototypical Western European country, both in terms of its welfare system and its...

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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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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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Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope : A Nonparametric Methodology

Cherchye, L. - 2006

In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from joint input use and input externalities. We provide a nonparametric characterization of cost...

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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The Shift to Remote Work Lessens Wage-Growth Pressures

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2022

The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity-value gains with employers, wage-growth pressures moderate. We find empirical support for this mechanism in the wage-setting behavior of U.S. employers, and we develop novel...

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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency : Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...

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