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Title: Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: We employ a discrete choice experiment in the employment process for a national call center to estimate the willingness to pay distribu- tion for alternative work arrangements relative to traditional office positions. Most workers are not willing to pay for scheduling flexibil- ity, 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 doc- ument that many job-seekers are inattentive, and we account for this in estimation.

Url: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20161500

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Authors: Mas, Alexandre

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review

Issue: 12

Volume: 107

Pages: 3722–3759

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