Public transit in the U.S. is in a sorry state – aging, underfunded and losing riders, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Many proposed solutions focus on new technologies, like self...
新冠疫情期间，居家办公极大减少了员工通勤时间。一项涵盖了27个国家员工的全球调查显示，2021年到2022年期间，居家办公每周为每名员工节省了约两个小时的通勤时间。平均而言，节省的通勤时间中，有40%被额外投入到主业或副业之中。男性和女性在如何分配节省出来的通勤时间方面差异不大：有14岁以下儿童的家庭中，女性每天只比男性多投入2.4分钟用于照顾孩子。
The shocks that have shaken the global economy in recent years have introduced a new normal for turbulence, driven in some cases by political fragmentation between countries. These episod...
The large shift to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the amount of time that workers spend commuting. This column reports on a global survey of workers in 27 countries s...
As COVID death rates fall to low levels in the United States (CDC 2021), employers are grappling with whether and how to bring employees back to the office or other place of work. They ar...
Leaving the office to work from home in spring 2020 was surprisingly easy. Almost immediately, workers began to work remotely using their own homes as workplaces in an attempt to carry on...
One potentially long-term consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is the new normal of working from home (WFH) – and its effects are not the same across all workplaces (Adam-Prassl et al. 20...
Global uncertainty reached unprecedented levels at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and remains elevated. The World Uncertainty Index—a quarterly measure of global economic and poli...
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a sudden, massive shift to working from home (WFH) around the world. There is great concern about how this development will play out over time, whether it ...
Tariff hikes, tariff threats, and tariff retaliations have become a major source of economic uncertainty, stock market volatility and concerns about the global outlook (e.g. Blanchard 201...
Rising trade uncertainty is cited as a driving factor for “sluggish global growth” in the current issue of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook, which describes the state of the world economy.
Policymakers around the world are fretting about trade uncertainty and its impact on the global economy. For instance, Christine Lagarde – the managing director of the International Monet...
The global economy is now projected to grow at 3.3% in 2019, down from 3.6% in 2018, according to the April 2019 edition of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook (IMF 2019). The IMF points out...
