Macro Seminar - Christine Braun (Warwick)
| Dates: | 18 October 2022 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Christine Braun |
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Title: Measuring the Productivity of Working from Home
Abstract: We document a doubling of hours worked at home in the US from 2003 to 2019. We propose a model where workers choose optimally where (at home or at the office) and how much to work, in which their choices depend on their preferences across locations and the relative productivity of working from home. We estimate the model allowing for both preference and productivity to change over time and decompose the rise in hours worked. We show that changes in preferences and the demographic composition of the workforce played little roll role in the rise of working from home. Instead, increases in the relative productivity of working from home and employment shifts toward occupations with higher relative productivities can account for the entire observed increase in hours worked at home.
Speaker
Christine Braun
Role: Assistant Professor
Organisation: University of Warwick
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Board Room, 2.016/2.017
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester
