Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

60 million fewer commuting hours per day: How Americans use time saved by working from home

Steven J. DAVIS, Nicholas A. BLOOM, Jose Maria BARRERO
Drawing on original surveys of our own design, we estimate that the pandemic-induced shift to working from home lowers commuting time among Americans by more than 60 million hours per work day. Cumulative time savings over the past seven months exceed 9 billion hours. Our survey data also say that A...
Keywords: Covid-10, Pandemic, Work from home
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Annual Conference

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Trade, Growth and Development, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2021

"Golden Ages": A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States

Hanming FANG, Xincheng QIU
We document stark differences in the labor market outcomes between the U.S. and China, the largest two economies in the world, during the past 30 years. (1) The peak age in cross-sectional age-earnings profiles stays constant at around 45- 50 years old in the U.S. but decreases sharply from 55 to 35...
Keywords: Age-Earnings Profiles, Human capital, Life Cycle
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