@article{2017:hansen:home_offic,
title = {Home Office – Salutary Action on Combining Work and Family?},
year = {2017},
note = {Working from home does not only receive attention from companies as a
non-pecuniary feature to entice and keep valuable employees, but also
by politicians as a mean to enhance the compatibility of labor market
and family obligations for working citizens. With representative panel
data, I investigate potential welfare effects of working from home in
the German context using life satisfaction as a proxy measure for
individual utility. I find that, on average, people working from home
are more satisfied with their lives. However, it shows that the
positive association between working from home and satisfaction with
live is entirely explained by socio-demographic and job
characteristics as well as individual heterogeneity, both in a sample
representative for the German population as well as in a sample
representative for the intended target group of employees with family
care obligations. Generally, working from home does not seem to be
beneficial nor does it appear particularly harmful. However, I find
that working from home is not related to care obligation or family
status but rather to authority and status in the workplace, leaving
the usefulness - at least as a policy measure to enhance work-life
balance - of the feature in doubt.},
journal = {Die Unternehmung},
pages = {390--413},
author = {Hansen, Kerstin F.},
volume = {71},
number = {4}
}