Jost, Madlaina; Möser, Sara (2023). Salary, flexibility or career opportunity? A choice experiment on gender specific job preferences Frontiers in sociology, 8 Frontiers Research Foundation 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) |
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Division/Institute: |
School of Social Work > Institute for Social Security and Social Policy School of Social Work |
Name: |
Jost, Madlaina and Möser, Sara |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
ISSN: |
2297-7775 |
Publisher: |
Frontiers Research Foundation |
Funders: |
[UNSPECIFIED] Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation (SBFI) |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Madlaina Jost |
Date Deposited: |
04 May 2023 11:32 |
Last Modified: |
04 May 2023 11:32 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3389/fsoc.2023.1154324 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
preferences, gender roles, family formation, division of labor, gender inequality, discrete choice experiment, labor market, job choice |
ARBOR DOI: |
10.24451/arbor.19177 |
URI: |
https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19177 |
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