This study examines the relationship between teleworking, gender roles and happiness of couples using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the Understanding Society Survey (USS) during the period 1991-2012. Various approaches are followed, including Probit-adapted fixed...

COVID-19 has become a global health pandemic forcing governments introducing unprecedented steps to contain the spread of the virus. On the 23rd of March, 2020, the UK government addressed the nation to announce extraordinary measures as a response to slow down the spread of the coronavirus,...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the world have attempted to protect jobs by paying companies to retain employees (“furloughing”), even when there was no work for them to do. Using a difference-in-differences design on a nationally representative dataset, this study...