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2020
Flexible work arrangements and precautionary behaviour : theory and experimental evidence
Flexible work arrangements and precautionary behaviour : theory and experimental evidence
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In the past years, work time in many industries has become increasingly flexible opening up a new channel for intertemporal substitution. To study this, we set up a two-period model with wage uncertainty. This extends the standard saving model by allowing a worker to allocate a fixed time budget between two work shifts or to save. To test the existence of these channels, we conduct laboratory consumption/saving experiments. A novel feature of our experiments is that we tie them to a real-effort style task. In four treatments, we turn on and off the two channels for consumption smoothing: saving and time allocation. Our four main findings are: (i) subjects exercise more effort under certainty than under risk; (ii) savings are strictly positive for at least 85 percent of subjects (iii) a majority of subjects uses time allocation to smooth consumption; (iv) saving and time shifting are substitutes, though not perfect substitutes.
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Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2020,04
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@techreport{Rostam-Afschar2020,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6494},
author = {Rostam-Afschar, Davud and Orland, Andreas},
title = {Flexible work arrangements and precautionary behaviour : theory and experimental evidence},
year = {2020},
school = {Universität Hohenheim},
series = {Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences},
}