TY - JOUR
T1 - Telework in the spread of COVID-19
AU - Okubo, Toshihiro
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is financed by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research JSPS KAKENHI (19H01487), Research Promotion Program for Jisedai Kenkyu Project (Keio University) and NIRA. I would like to thank Eric Strobl, Reiko Kanda and workshop participants at Nagoya City University for their helpful comments and Atsushi Inoue, Kozue Sekijima, and Kohei Ando for their excellent assistance. I also thank an editor and two anonymous referees for helpful and excellent comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - In the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), people have been requested to work from home with information and communication technology (ICT) tools, i.e. telework. This paper investigates which factors (infection of COVID-19, individual characteristics, task characteristics, and working environments) are associated with telework use in Japan. Using the unique panel survey on telework, our estimation finds that although telework use remains low in Japan, educated, high ICT-skilled, younger, and female workers who engage in less teamwork and less routine tasks tend to use telework. Working environments such as the richness of IT communication tools, digitalized offices, and flexible-hour working systems are all positively correlated with telework use.
AB - In the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), people have been requested to work from home with information and communication technology (ICT) tools, i.e. telework. This paper investigates which factors (infection of COVID-19, individual characteristics, task characteristics, and working environments) are associated with telework use in Japan. Using the unique panel survey on telework, our estimation finds that although telework use remains low in Japan, educated, high ICT-skilled, younger, and female workers who engage in less teamwork and less routine tasks tend to use telework. Working environments such as the richness of IT communication tools, digitalized offices, and flexible-hour working systems are all positively correlated with telework use.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Digitalization
KW - ICT tools
KW - Non-routine task
KW - Telework
KW - Working environments
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100987
DO - 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100987
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133555669
SN - 0167-6245
VL - 60
JO - Information Economics and Policy
JF - Information Economics and Policy
M1 - 100987
ER -