Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements
通过全国呼叫中心招聘中的离散选择实验,估计员工对不同工作安排(如灵活排班、居家办公)的支付意愿,发现多数人不愿为灵活性付费,但少数高估值者能产生显著补偿性工资差异。
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.