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Stated preferences over job characteristics: a panel study

Doiron, D.; Yoo, H.I.

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Authors

D. Doiron

H.I. Yoo



Abstract

When making choices over jobs with different characteristics, what trade‐offs are decision‐makers willing to make? Such a question is difficult to address using typical household surveys that provide a limited amount of information on the attributes of the jobs. To address this question, a small but growing number of studies have turned to the use of stated preference experiments; but the extent to which stated choices by respondents reflect systematic trade‐offs across job characteristics remains an open question. We use two popular types of experiments (profile case best–worst scaling and multi‐profile case best–worst scaling) to elicit job preferences of nursing students and junior nurses in Australia. Each person participated in both types of experiments twice, within a span of about 15 months. Using a novel joint likelihood approach that links a decision‐maker's preferences across the two types of experiments and over time, we find that the decision‐makers make similar trade‐offs across job characteristics in both types of experiments and in both time periods, except for the trade‐off between salary and other attributes. The valuation of salary falls significantly over time relative to other job attributes for both types of experiments. Also, within each period, salary is less valued in the profile case compared to the more traditional multi‐profile case.

Citation

Doiron, D., & Yoo, H. (2020). Stated preferences over job characteristics: a panel study. Canadian Journal of Economics, 53(1), 43-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12431

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 16, 2019
Online Publication Date Feb 15, 2020
Publication Date Mar 30, 2020
Deposit Date May 22, 2019
Publicly Available Date Feb 15, 2022
Journal Canadian Journal of Economics
Print ISSN 0008-4085
Electronic ISSN 1540-5982
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 53
Issue 1
Article Number 43-82
Pages 43-82
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12431
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1301130

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Doiron, D. & Yoo, H.I. (2020). Stated preferences over job characteristics: a panel study. Canadian Journal of Economics 53(1): 43-82 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12431. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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