Adam Gill defended his dissertation on 25 May
Adam Gill defended his dissertation on 25 May.
Adam Gill successfully defended his dissertation Beyond the Office Chair: Working from Home, Labor Market Access, and the Spatial Distribution of Firms on 25 May 2026.
Adam Gill with the opponent Albrecht Glitz after the defence.
About the dissertation
The first essay finds that job vacancies signaling working-from-home arrangements attract applicants from a geographically broader pool of job seekers. The vacacines also attract more applications on average and, for job ads with strong WFH signals, see an increase in quality for the top applicants.
The second essay shows that work from home is much more frequent in markets where managers exhibit greater trust towards employees. Manager trust is strongly associated with work from home both pre- and post-pandemic. These results suggest that manager trust may be a crucial prerequisite for remote work.
The third essay shows that the sustained increase in remote work has led to a lasting reallocation of local consumer services from office districts to residential neighborhoods, improving sales, profitability, and firm survival in residential areas.
About the defense:
The opponent was Associate Professor Albrecht Glitz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The grading committee consisted of Professor Mats Hammarstedt, IFN and Linnaeus University, Associate Professor Marina Toger, Uppsala University, and Professor Peter Fredriksson, Uppsala University.
The supervisors were Professor Lena Hensvik and Professor Oskar Nordström Skans.
Dissertation
Read Dr. Gill's doctoral thesis in Diva.