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Unlocked Potential: Work-from-Home Job Postings in 20 OECD Countries

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  • Pawel Adrjan
  • Gabriele Ciminelli
  • Alexandre Judes
  • Michael Koelle
  • Cyrille Schwellnus
  • Tara Sinclair

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Starting from over 1.2 billion job postings, we construct and make publicly available a novel dataset on postings advertising work from home (WFH) in 20 countries and 55 occupational categories from January 2019 to September 2022. We document three stylized facts. First, in the average country, WFH surged during the pandemic but declined only marginally as the pandemic receded. Second, across countries, increases in WFH were more pronounced where mobility restrictions were more severe. Third, across occupations, the shift toward WFH was concentrated in occupations where WFH was technically and organizationally feasible even before the pandemic.

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  • Pawel Adrjan & Gabriele Ciminelli & Alexandre Judes & Michael Koelle & Cyrille Schwellnus & Tara Sinclair, 2023. "Unlocked Potential: Work-from-Home Job Postings in 20 OECD Countries," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 113, pages 604-608, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:113:y:2023:p:604-08
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20231014
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management

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