全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14871 My Home Is My Castle -- The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis: Evidence from Germany

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14871
	DP14871 My Home Is My Castle -- The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis: Evidence from Germany
	Harald Fadinger; Jan Schymik; Jean-Victor Alipour
发表日期	2020-06-11
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	This paper studies the relation between work and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Combining administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and short-time work registrations, firm- and worker-level surveys and cell phone tracking data on mobility patterns, we find that working from home (WFH) is very effective in economic and public health terms. WFH effectively shields workers from short-time work, firms from COVID-19 distress and substantially reduces infection risks. Counties whose occupation structure allows for a larger fraction of work to be done from home experienced (i) much fewer short-time work registrations and (ii) less SARS-CoV-2 cases. Health benefits of WFH appeared mostly in the early stage of the pandemic and became smaller once tight confinement rules were implemented. Before confinement, mobility levels were lower in counties with more WFH jobs and counties experienced a convergence in traffic levels once confinement was in place.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics ; Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Covid-19 Sars-cov-2 Working from home Labor supply shock Infections Mitigation Bibb-baua
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14871-0
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543809
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Harald Fadinger,Jan Schymik,Jean-Victor Alipour. DP14871 My Home Is My Castle -- The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis: Evidence from Germany. 2020.