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Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment / Haoran He, David Neumark, Qian Weng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- He, Haoran.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25423.
- NBER working paper series no. w25423
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when one works (time flexibility) or where one works (place flexibility), and offering different salaries. Application rates are higher for flexible jobs, conditional on the salary offered, providing evidence that workers value job flexibility. Moreover, under some plausible conditions our evidence is informative about job seekers' willingness to pay for flexible jobs of the types offered in the experiment, and points to fairly high valuation of the most flexible jobs.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2019.
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