Arbeitspapier

The Role of Institutions in Job Teleworkability Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic

The teleworkability of jobs - whether they can and will be performed remotely - has been increasingly contested in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. To explain which jobs are teleworkable and why, we emphasize the institutional context of a job, including differences among firms, union representation, professional licensing requirements, sector, and employment models. Using a novel dataset of job characteristics extracted from the text of a large sample of online job advertisements from 2010-2021, we examine various explanations for change in the availability of remote job opportunities. Prior to the pandemic, private sector, non-union, and unlicensed jobs lagged federal government, union, and licensed jobs in the growth of telework. Firms are the largest source of variance in remote job offerings relative to other obvious alternatives (technological feasibility, occupation, sector, geography). After March 2020, between-firm differences increased, and institutions influenced the rate of telework adoption.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1172

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General
Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Thema
flexible work
technology
institutions
institutional change
remote work

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Norlander, Peter
Erickson, Christopher
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2022

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Norlander, Peter
  • Erickson, Christopher
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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