Alternative work arrangements, defined both by working conditions and by workers’ relationship to their employers, are heterogeneous and common in the U.S. This article reviews the literature on workers’ preferences over these arrangements, inputs to firms’ decision to offer them, and the impact of regulation. It also highlights several descriptive facts. Work arrangements have been relatively stable over the past 20 years, work conditions vary substantially with education, and jobs with schedule or location flexibility are less family-friendly on average. This last fact helps explain why women are not more likely to have schedule or location flexibility and seem to largely reduce hours to get more family-friendly arrangements.

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替代工作安排

在美国，通过工作条件和工人与雇主的关系来定义替代性工作安排是异类且普遍的。本文回顾了有关工人对这些安排的偏好，对公司决定提供他们的决定的投入及其影响的文献。监管。它还强调了一些描述性事实。在过去的20年中，工作安排一直相对稳定，工作条件随教育程度而有很大差异，具有时间表或位置灵活性的工作平均而言对家庭的友好程度较低。这最后一个事实有助于解释为什么女性不太可能具有时间表或位置灵活性，并且似乎在很大程度上减少了工作时间，以便获得更多家庭友好的安排。