Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits
Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Survey in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7170950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krishna B Kumar (Socio-Economic and Global Research, NORC at the University of Chicago), Minhaj Mahmud (0000-0003-2432-6972, Asian Development Bank, corresponding author), Shanthi Nataraj (0000-0002-1982-3221, Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica), Yoonyoung Cho (0000-0002-3149-4387, Social Protection and Jobs, World Bank) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 970-988 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220388.2025.2451868 |
| OpenAlex | W4407008630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
We study the working conditions of low-skilled workers in a developing country, Bangladesh, to shed light on the conditions workers value and employers may be willing to provide. Using a carefully designed choice experiment embedded in a unique survey of employers and employees, we elicit preferences for compensation, leave and termination policies, working hours, overtime pay, and accident compensation. Workers value termination notice and accident compensation, and employers are not averse to providing them. However, workers find long working hours without overtime compensation to be highly undesirable, whereas many employers are unwilling to provide shorter hours or overtime pay unless they face the threat of fines or are offered substantial incentives. Our findings suggest that encouraging the provision of termination notice and accident compensation may be relatively easy, but that increasing compliance with legal limits on working hours and overtime compensation is likely to require increased enforcement or substantial incentives
Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Employee engagement · Employee research · Employee resource groups · Labour economics · Management · Agricultural risk and resilience · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Applied Choice Analysis
Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market
Understanding Heterogeneous Preferences in Random Utility Models
A structural equation model of latent segmentation and product choice for cross-sectional revealed preference choice data
Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements
Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior
Compensating Wage Differentials and Unobserved Productivity
Contingent Valuation
Transitions between informal and formal employment
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2027 - 2027 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |