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CCER讨论稿：Is Working from Home Here to Stay?Evidence from Job Posting Data after the Covid-19 Shock

发布日期：2021-11-10 11:40    来源：

E2021006                                            2021-11-10

Jiayin Hu   Hongcheng Xu  Yang Yao  Liuyi Zheng

 

Abstract

We examine the transition to and persistence of working from home (WFH) by firms after the Covid-19 shock. Using job posting data from a leading online job portal in China and exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic as a quasi-experiment inducing the short-run WFH take-up of firms, we find a substantial and persistent increase in the share of WFH jobs post Covid-19. The WFH share increase in job posting is larger in firms with lower pre-Covid WFH adoption, consistent with the learning effect from temporary shutdown policies. Firms with greater potential for remote work, measured by the teleworkability index à la Dingel & Neiman (2020), also experience larger increase in WFH job postings. Given that WFH jobs provide higher salaries and have higher educational requirements, our findings suggest that WFH is here to stay and thus have long-term implications on firm productivity and labor market inequality.

Keywords: Work from home, labor market, job posting, COVID-19, pandemic, persistent impact, quasi-experiment

JEL classification: J21, J23, J24, J31, I26, O33

论文SSRN网址 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3959407

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