This note provides guidance for policymakers, World Bank country teams, and development practitioners to enhance the quality, affordability, and sustainability of home-based childcare (HBC) services in low-income settings. It outlines a comprehensive approach to recognizing HBC as a public good...

This article explores how an employee's choice to work from home (WFH) influences his or her spouse's outcomes. Drawing on the specific features of the French institutions, we show that a spouse's switch to WFH leads to a sharp increase in the probability that his or her partner will also switch...

While the blurring of boundaries between the public (office) and the private (home) spaces commenced much before the pandemic, the Covid-19 crisis has brough the related challenges to the forefront in the world of work. The anticipated rise in the prevalence of hybrid and remote working modes...

Between 2003 and 2015, the labor force participation rate of women in Bangladesh increased from 26.0% to 35.6%. On further analysis, we find that much of this gain was due to an increasing number of women working from home. We use the model proposed by Edwards and Field-Hendrey (2002) to study...

Analysis of data from the representative German Linked Personnel Panel revealed that, overall, the use of home-based working is associated with a higher affective organisational commitment on the part of employees. However, this is less often the case when the use of home-based working involves...

For many low-income households in the Global South a house is both a place to live and to generate income in the informal economy. This can include activities in and around the home such as: running small shops selling daily necessities; producing food or crafts; repairing household items;...

Cottage industries in India have a great contribution to Indian economy. But these industries started developing from the very ancient time. The objectives of the present paper are to trace the origin and development of cottage industries in India. This work is based on the research work of the...

This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced governments in many countries to ask employees to work from home (WFH) where possible. Using representative data from the UK, we show that increases in WFH frequency are associated with a higher self-perceived productivity per hour and an increase in weekly...

This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework...

Working from home has brought a number of changes in the lives, habits and ways of working of many employees. The article analyzes some of these changes starting from a survey conducted at the end of 2020 on a national sample of 554 subjects. The results were grouped on several major topics:...

ILO has predicted that economic disruptions caused by the pandemic have the potential to render the already vulnerable informal workers into deeper levels of poverty and deprivation. Despite this, there has been little to no urgency by state actors to extend protection and security to these...

This paper introduces a labor force participation choice into a labor market matching model embedded in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with production and savings. The participation choice is modelled as a tradeoff between forgoing the expected benefits of being search active...

The report discusses the impact of COVID-19 associated national lockdown and the subsequent unlock period on the lives and livelihood of women home-based workers in Delhi. A mixed-method approach involving telephonic survey and in-depth interviews with stakeholders and women workers was used to...

Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...