Teleworking and life satisfaction during COVID-19: The importance of family structure
Senik, Claudia ; Clark, Andrew E. ; D'Ambrosio, Conchita ; Lepinteur, Anthony ; Schröder, Christoph
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn
IZA - Bonn
2022
30 p.
telework ; quality of life ; work-life balance ; gender roles ; survey
Discussion Paper
15715
Work organization
English
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"We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity reflecting genderrole asymmetry: lower life satisfaction is only found for unmarried men and women with school-age children. The negative effect for women with school-age children disappears in 2021, suggesting adaptation to new constraints and/or the adoption of coping strategies."
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