Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment
通过在中国招聘网站上的实地实验，发现提供时间或地点灵活性的工作能吸引更多求职者，且求职者愿意为高灵活性工作支付较高薪酬。
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 (time flexibility) or where (place flexibility) one works and in 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.