Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment

Haoran He, David Neumark and Qian Weng

No 25423, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: J01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01
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Published as Haoran He & David Neumark & Qian Weng, 2021. "Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment," Journal of Labor Economics, vol 39(3), pages 709-738.

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