Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295871 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16848
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Driven by new information technologies, working from home has experienced unprecedented growth since the COVID pandemic. We contribute to the debate on the consequences of this development by drawing on a French reform conducted in 2017, with the aim of facilitating telework agreements between employers and employees. We show that the reform was followed by a boom in working from home, particularly in mid-level occupations. On the other hand, employees in lower-level occupations were virtually unaffected. By comparing occupational groups before and after the reform, in firms that have signed telework agreements and in firms that have not, we find that the development of working from home coincides with a significant deterioration in the health status of mid-level employees, particularly men. Wages and number hours worked, on the other hand, remain largely unaffected.
Subjects: 
occupational level
teleworking
health status
working from home
JEL: 
J81
J53
I19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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