ECIN Replication Package for "Individualism and Working from Home"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jan Bietenbeck, Lund University; Natalie Irmert, Lund University; Therese Nilsson, Lund University

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Project Citation: 

Bietenbeck, Jan, Irmert, Natalie, and Nilsson, Therese. ECIN Replication Package for “Individualism and Working from Home.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-10-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E237684V2

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We show that culturally transmitted individualism is an important determinant of working from home (WFH). Using individual-level data from the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) and the European Social Survey (ESS), we compare immigrants and their descendants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location. A 10-point increase in country-of-origin individualism (0–100 scale) increases the likelihood of WFH by 3.9 percentage points and WFH hours by 1.12 per week in the CPS, and frequent WFH by 2 percentage points in the ESS. Individualism appears to affect WFH partly through higher educational attainment and occupational selection.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      J20 Demand and Supply of Labor: General
      J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Manuscript Number:  View help for Manuscript Number 1173184


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