Gender Differences in Preference for Non-pecuniary Benefits in the Labour Market. Experimental Evidence from an Online Freelancing Platform.*

Adnan M. S. Fakir (), Yiwei Qian () and Naveen Sunder ()
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Adnan M. S. Fakir: University of Sussex Business School, Brighton, BN1 9RH.
Yiwei Qian: Stanford University, Stanford, California - 94305, USA.
Naveen Sunder: Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts - 02452, USA.
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Christian Seel and Matthew Embrey

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Abstract: : We conduct an experiment on a major international online freelancing labor market platform to study the impact of greater flexibility in choosing work hours within a day on female participation. We post identical job advertisements (for 320 jobs) covering a wide range of tasks (80 distinct tasks) that differ only in flexibility and the fee offered. Comparing application numbers across these jobs, we find that though both men and women prefer flexibility, the elasticity of response for women is twice as large as for men. Flexible jobs receive 24 percent more female applications and 12 percent more male applications compared to inflexible jobs. Our findings have important implications in explaining gender differences in labor market outcomes and for firms interested in attracting more women employees.

Keywords: workplace flexibility; online freelancing jobs; female labour force participation workplace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J22 L86 O14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
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