Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis.

Autor/inn/en	Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart
Titel	Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ist Homeoffice der neue Standard? Nachweise aus Stellenausschreibungen während der COVID-19-Krise.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2022) 76, 9 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102179
Schlagwörter	Verhalten; Arbeitgeber; Arbeitsplatz; Österreich; Verhalten; Auswirkung; Telearbeit; Qualifikation; Berufsgruppe; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Pandemie; Pandemie; Arbeitsplatz; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Berufsgruppe; Qualifikation; Telearbeit; Jobbörse; Auswirkung; Einflussfaktor; Entwicklungspotenzial; Arbeitgeber; Österreich
Abstract	"This study examines how the COVID-19 crisis has changed the willingness of employers to offer teleworking options. We analyze job descriptions from vacancy postings on the largest Austrian job board to classify whether employers offer the option to telework to new hires. Our results show that the crisis has substantially increased the scope for remote work. About one year after the onset of the crisis, employers were 2-3 times as likely to explicitly offer such an option relative to levels before the pandemic. This effect is particularly strong for jobs that require at least a degree from a higher secondary school. Accounting for changes in vacancies by occupations and firms, we find that the impact is neither driven by an increase in the demand for teleworkable occupations nor by an increase in vacancies at teleworking-friendly firms. Although many social distancing restrictions were relaxed again during the summer of 2020, the effect persists throughout the first year of the crisis, suggesting that the pandemic may have long-lasting effects on remote working arrangements. To test the robustness of our results, we merge two external occupation-level teleworking measures to our sample. Both measures are highly correlated with our measure and yield comparable estimates for the impact of the pandemic on vacancies for teleworkable occupations." The study refers to the period 2017-2021. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1