Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mas, Alexandre; Pallais, Amanda
• 署名单位: Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20161500
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 3722-3759
• 关键词: compensating wage differentials; labor-market; contingent valuation; choice experiments; FAMILY; ECONOMICS; POLICY

摘要

We employ a discrete choice experiment in the employment process for a national call center to estimate the willingness to pay distribution for alternative work arrangements relative to traditional office positions. Most workers are not willing to pay for scheduling flexibility, though a tail of workers with high valuations allows for sizable compensating differentials. The average worker is willing to give up 20 percent of wages to avoid a schedule set by an employer on short notice, and 8 percent for the option to work from home. We also document that many job-seekers are inattentive, and we account for this in estimation.