Salary, flexibility or career opportunity? A choice experiment on gender specific job preferences

Jost, Madlaina; Möser, Sara Alice (2023). Salary, flexibility or career opportunity? A choice experiment on gender specific job preferences. Frontiers in sociology, 8 Frontiers 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1154324

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Using the evaluation of hypothetical job offers in a discrete choice experiment, we analyse which characteristics of employment positions are relevant to men and women when deciding between job offers. Thereby, we investigate whether preferences for work arrangements are gender specific. The analysis shows that on average, women have a stronger preference for part-time work than men, and that the career prospect of a job is more important to men than to women. Furthermore, we use heterogeneity within genders to study whether gender specific preference patterns result from gendered considerations of family formation. We find that certain men and women, especially those who plan to have children and have traditional intentions about the division of labor in the household, evaluate work relationships more strongly according to gender roles than others. This analysis of hypothetical employment choices provides valuable insight into the preference structure of men and women, which proves to be heterogeneous within and between genders.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education > Sociology of Education
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education

UniBE Contributor:

Jost, Madlaina, Möser, Sara Alice

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

2297-7775

Publisher:

Frontiers

Funders:

[201] Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation (SBFI) = Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

Language:

English

Submitter:

Sara Alice Möser

Date Deposited:

17 Apr 2023 16:16

Last Modified:

17 Apr 2023 16:16

Publisher DOI:

10.3389/fsoc.2023.1154324

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/181788

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/181788

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