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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.

English, French

Teleworking through the gender looking glass

Facts and gaps

This paper takes stock of existing data and research on the gendered dimension of teleworking, to foster efficient data collection and evidence-based monitoring of the phenomenon in the future. Analysing existing data on work from home, teleworking, teleworkability and preferences for work from home highlights the need for a consistently defined teleworking concept to be used across sources. A literature review of existing results finds mixed effects of teleworking on work-life balance inequalities, on the gender wage gap, and on gender disparities in career progression. Prevailing gender norms are likely to mediate the effect of teleworking on all three outcomes and should be a focus of future research.

English

Keywords: Gender, Gender gaps, Teleworking, Hybrid work, Teleworkability
JEL: Y1: Miscellaneous Categories / Data: Tables and Charts; J81: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor Standards: National and International / Labor Standards: Working Conditions; J16: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demographic Economics / Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination; J01: Labor and Demographic Economics / General / Labor Economics: General; J22: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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