abstract: 'This study investigates individual preferences for work arrangements in

  a discrete choice experiment. Based on sociological and economic

  literature, we identified six essential job attributes-earnings, job

  security, training opportunities, scheduling flexibility, prestige of

  the company, and gender composition of the work team-and mapped these

  into hypothetical job offers. Out of three job offers, with different

  specifications in the respective job attributes, respondents had to

  choose the offer they considered as most attractive. In 2017, we

  implemented our choice experiment in two large-scale surveys conducted

  in two countries: Germany (N = 2,659) and the Netherlands (N = 2,678).

  Our analyses revealed that respondents considered all six job attributes

  in their decision process but had different priorities for each.

  Moreover, we found gendered preferences. Women preferred scheduling

  flexibility and a company with a good reputation, whereas men preferred

  jobs with high earnings and a permanent contract. Despite different

  national labor market regulations, different target populations, and

  different sampling strategies for the two surveys, job preferences for

  German and Dutch respondents were largely parallel.'
affiliation: 'Valet, P (Corresponding Author), Univ Bamberg, Dept Sociol, Bamberg,
  Germany.

  Valet, Peter, Univ Bamberg, Dept Sociol, Bamberg, Germany.

  Sauer, Carsten, Bielefeld Univ, Dept Sociol, Bielefeld, Germany.

  Tolsma, Jochem, Univ Groningen, Dept Sociol, Groningen, Netherlands.

  Tolsma, Jochem, Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Dept Sociol, Nijmegen, Netherlands.'
article-number: e0254483
author: Valet, Peter and Sauer, Carsten and Tolsma, Jochem
author-email: peter.valet@uni-bamberg.de
author_list:
- family: Valet
  given: Peter
- family: Sauer
  given: Carsten
- family: Tolsma
  given: Jochem
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254483
files: []
issn: 1932-6203
journal: PLOS ONE
keywords-plus: 'PERCEIVED EXTERNAL PRESTIGE; PART-TIME WORK; JOB QUALITY; EMPLOYMENT

  RELATIONS; GENDER INEQUALITY; LABOR-MARKET; LIFE; TEMPORARY; INCOME;

  CITIZENSHIP'
language: English
month: JUL 12
number: '7'
number-of-cited-references: '84'
orcid-numbers: 'Valet, Peter/0000-0002-8761-3218

  Sauer, Carsten/0000-0002-8090-6886'
papis_id: 4625cbbc5f7c713520c609a02a01cee2
ref: Valet2021preferenceswork
researcherid-numbers: 'Tolsma, Jochem/H-5746-2012

  Valet, Peter/U-8421-2019

  '
times-cited: '4'
title: 'Preferences for work arrangements: A discrete choice experiment'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000674302200005
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '10'
volume: '16'
web-of-science-categories: Multidisciplinary Sciences
year: '2021'