Jan Bietenbeck
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jbietenbeck.bsky.social
Jan Bietenbeck
@jbietenbeck.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Lund University with research interests in labor and education.
We find that across both US (CPS) and Europe (ESS), people from more individualistic cultures are much more likely to work from home — even within the same city and occupation.

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December 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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🧩 Correlation or causation?

To isolate the influence of individualism from institutional and economic confounders, we compare immigrants living in the same labor markets but coming from different cultural backgrounds.
December 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM