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居家办公效率究竟如何？这项研究旨在寻找答案
自从新冠肺炎疫情爆发以来，居家工作者的数量迅速增加。同时，对于居家办公的研究也迅速增加。我们现在知道什么工人需要能够进行居家办公，以及什么类型的工作者实际上是居家工作者。研究结果普遍表明，大型企业中高技能、高薪资的白领员工倾向于居家办公，这意味着居家工作者的增多往往会加剧劳动力市场的不平等。然而，人们还没有很好的了解居家办公的生产效率。
Masayuki Morikawa
Masayuki Morikawa is the Vice President, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He joined the then Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1982 and has held a variety of positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), including as the Director of the Macroeconomic Affairs Division, Industrial Structure Policy Division and the Deputy Director-General of the Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Kyoto University. His area of expertise includes economic policy, industrial structure, and productivity analysis. He has published in several academic journals includingEconomics Letters, Energy Economics, Labour Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Small Business Economics. His recent book Productivity in Service Industries: Empirical analyses using microdata (Nippon Hyoronsha Co., Ltd. 2014) [in Japanese] was awarded the prestigious 57th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science in November 2014.
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