讲座主题：Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment on Compensating Differentials

主讲人：何浩然副教授

主持人：姜树广博士

时间：2019年1月4日（周五）14：00-16：00

地点：经济学院（6号楼）210

主办单位：浙江省一流学科“理论经济学”、经济学院

主讲人简介：

何浩然，瑞典哥德堡大学经济学博士，北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院副教授、博士生导师。主要研究领域为亲社会行为、团队决策、就业市场、公共政策评估。近年来在Experimental Economics、Journal ofEconomicBehavior&Organization、Journal ofEconomicPsychology、Economics Letters、Environment and DevelopmentEconomics、Environment and Planning A、《管理世界》、《经济学（季刊）》、《世界经济》等上发表多篇论文。

内容摘要：

We explore compensating differentials for job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board. Our job ads differ randomly regarding when one works (time flexibility) and where one works (place flexibility). We find strong evidence that workers value job flexibility – especially regarding place of work. Application rates are higher to flexible jobs, conditional on the salary offered. Additional survey evidence indicates that workers are willing to take lower pay for more flexible jobs. Non-experimental job board data do not indicate that workers value job flexibility, reinforcing the difficulty of estimating compensating differentials from observational data.