Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162183 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 2016/07
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
This paper investigates how working from home affects employees' work effort. Employees, who have the possibility to work from home, have a high autonomy in scheduling their work and therefore are assumed to have a higher intrinsic motivation. Thus, we expect working from home to positively influence work effort of employees. For the empirical analysis we use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). To account for self-selection into working locations we use an instrumental variable (IV) estimation strategy. Our empirical results show that working from home has a significantly positive influence on work effort. Moreover, we find that also the frequency of working from home is crucial. The more often employees work from home, the higher is the work effort they provide.
Subjects: 
working from home
job design
work effort
intrinsic motivation
reciprocity
JEL: 
J81
M50
M54
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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