TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Desiere, Sam
AU  - Walter, Christian
        TI  - The Shift Premium: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
        PY  - 2023/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16460
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16460
        AB  - Shift work is a widespread but understudied phenomenon. This paper examines one specific aspect of shift work: the shift premium. To this end, we included a discrete choice experiment in an online survey targeted at night and shift workers. Respondents chose between a standard 9 am - 5 pm job paying €15 per hour and a job with shift work in which the wage randomly varied between €12 and €20. The results show that respondents demand sizeable shift premiums to prefer shift over daytime work, with higher premiums for more onerous working hours such as night shifts or rotating shifts. We observe substantial heterogeneity in the shift premium across respondents and provide suggestive evidence of labour market sorting.
        KW  - shift work
KW  - shift premium
KW  - Willingness to Pay
KW  - discrete choice experiment
        ER  -