 Mobility restrictions and the substitution between on-site and remote work: Empirical evidence from a European online labour marketFrank Mueller-Langer and Estrella Gómez-Herrera Information Economics and Policy, 2022, vol. 58, issue C Abstract: Intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, online labour markets are at the core of the economic and policy debate about the future of work and the conditions under which we work online. We analyse the effects of an increase in the cost of on-site work induced by COVID-19-related mobility restrictions on the substitution between on-site and remote job postings and between on-site and remote hires. We benefit from the fact that the implementation of stay-at-home requirements varies by country, time and level. We use unique company data from a large European online labour market. We provide empirical evidence for a positive effect of stay-at-home restrictions on job postings and hires of remote work relative to on-site work. Overall, our results suggest that employers are substituting remote employment for on-site employment, while there is no substantial change in overall employment. Keywords: Remote work; On-site work; Stay-at-home requirements; Cost of working on-site; COVID-19; Online labour markets (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:iepoli:v:58:y:2022:i:c:s0167624521000391 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2021.100951 Access Statistics for this article Information Economics and Policy is currently edited by D. Waterman More articles in Information Economics and Policy from Elsevier |
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