Startup Labor Markets and Remote Work: Evidence from Job Applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Hsu ◽  
Prasanna Tambe
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Remote Work

scholarly journals Home Production and Leisure during the COVID-19 Recession

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Leukhina ◽  
Zhixiu Yu
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Home Production ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Production Activity ◽  
Married Individuals ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Between the months of February and April of 2020, average weekly market hours in the U.S. dropped by 6.25, meanwhile 36% of workers reported switching to remote work arrangements. In this paper, we examine implications of these changes for the time allocation of different households, and on aggregate. We estimate that home production activity increased by 2.65 h a week, or 42.4% of lost market hours, due to the drop in market work and rise in remote work. The monthly value of home production increased by $39.65 billion – that is 13.55% of the concurrent $292.61 billion drop in monthly GDP. Although market hours declined the most for single, less educated individuals, the lost market hours were absorbed into home production the most by married individuals with children. Adding on the impact of school closures, our estimate of weekly home production hours increases by as much as 4.92 h. The increase in the value of monthly home production between February and April updates to $73.57 billion. We also report the estimated impact of labor markets and telecommuting on home production for each month in 2020.

scholarly journals Telework in a Land of Overwork: It’s Not That Simple or Is It?

2022 ◽  
pp. 000276422110660
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Ono
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Implicit Contracts ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Distinct Features

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted labor markets around the world. Workers and corporations scrambled to adjust their workstyles to a new normal, by avoiding the commute and working remotely from their homes or elsewhere. Japan is a country that stood out for its inability to adjust to the remote work environment. Comparative statistics show that Japan reported the lowest number of people engaged in remote work among the OECD countries, as well as the lowest percentage of corporations that offered remote work policies. In this article, I investigate why telework in Japan is difficult. The lack of telework in Japan may seem paradoxical, given the country’s reputation for being technologically advanced. I argue that it is not the technological infrastructure that is lacking in the Japanese workplace, but distinct features of work embedded in Japanese culture and its collectivist roots that prevent the effective implementation of telework. I rely on recently published data from various sources, and apply key sociological theories such as implicit contracts, gift exchange, dramaturgy, and impression management to substantiate my main arguments. The paper concludes by drawing on implications for the future of work in Japan.

scholarly journals Functioning of the Regional Labor Market in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Vladimir Bylkov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Regional Labor Markets ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Global Spread

The global spread of COVID-19 has also affected the labor market. The government's medical and epidemiological measures created the prerequisites for another socio-economic crisis. Since the pandemic is associated with the preservation of the human resource, therefore, its consequences assessment is relevant. This paper explores the special parameters that can characterize trends in the social and labor sphere. The data from the Territorial Body of State Statistics for the Irkutsk Region (Irkutskstat) for the years 2018-2019 and for the 1st half of the 2020 year used as the information base of the study. It was revealed that the regional labor markets reacted adequately to the crisis signals of the spread of the coronavirus. The regional labor market indicators have negative trends and reflect the growing social tension. The study results show the increasing volume of retirement. By way of example, the share of people seeking work and recognized as unemployed have significantly increased for first half of 2020. The declared number of workers who are going to be laid off has almost doubled (by 193 %). This means that the number of unemployed will grow steadily. In these conditions, it is necessary to carry out monthly monitoring of changes in the situation in the regional labor market. The phenomenon of using remote work requires a separate study.

Our Bodies, Whose Property?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, this book challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. The book explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic. The book asks what is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we commonly applaud? The book contends that body markets occupy the outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all labor markets. But it also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same world. Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, the book demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend.

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