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Stated preferences over job characteristics: A panel study

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  • Denise Doiron
  • Hong Il Yoo

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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. Préférences déclarées et caractéristiques d’emplois: étude par panel. En matière de carrière, quels choix les décideurs seront‐ils disposés à faire entre plusieurs emplois aux caractéristiques différentes? Difficile de répondre à cette question en utilisant les enquêtes‐ménages traditionnelles ne fournissant qu’un nombre restreint d’informations sur les caractéristiques d’emplois. Pour tenter d’y parvenir, un nombre limité mais croissant de recherches se tournent vers les études de type préférences déclarées ; pour autant, de telles préférences déclarées reflètent‐elles les choix systématiques des répondants par rapport aux attributs des différents emplois? La question reste ouverte. Afin de recueillir les préférences professionnelles des étudiantes en soins infirmiers ainsi que des infirmières en début de carrière en Australie, nous avons utilisé deux types d’études assez courants: la profile case best‐worst scaling (étude relative à seul profil pour lequel le répondant doit choisir la meilleure et la pire caractéristique), et la multi‐profile case best‐worst scaling (étude de plusieurs profils pour lesquels le répondant doit choisir les meilleurs et les pires profiles). Les personnes sondées ont participé aux deux études deux fois dans un intervalle de 15 mois. En utilisant une nouvelle approche de probabilité jointe établissant un lien entre les préférences d’un répondant, les deux types d’études et l’intervalle de temps, nous avons découvert que les choix en matière de caractéristiques d’emplois restaient les mêmes d’une étude à l’autre à l’exception du salaire. En effet, comparativement aux autres caractéristiques, la valorisation du salaire baisse significativement dans le temps, et ce dans les deux études. De même, pour chaque période, nous avons remarqué que le salaire est davantage valorisé dans l’étude type multi‐profile case traditionnelle que dans l’étude profile case .

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  • Denise Doiron & Hong Il Yoo, 2020. "Stated preferences over job characteristics: A panel study," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 53(1), pages 43-82, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:canjec:v:53:y:2020:i:1:p:43-82
    DOI: 10.1111/caje.12431
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