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Project Leaders: Erwin Winkler, Markus Nagler, Michael Stops
Ph.D. Students: Thomas Vollmuth, Lennert Peede
Collaboration Partner: Johannes Rincke
Funded by: The German Research Foundation (DFG), 2026-28
Volume: 346,000 EUR
Why do some firms offer better working conditions than others? While the existing literature on non-wage amenities provides ample evidence on workers' demand for amenities, much less is known about the supply side. In this project, we study employers' decisions to provide non-wage amenities, and how these decisions respond to labor market conditions, labor scarcity, institutional changes, and digitization.
Part 1: The Costs of Providing Job Amenities
Part 1: The Costs of Providing Job Amenities
In collaboration with the ifo institute's human resource manager survey, we plan to conduct a choice experiment with human resource managers to estimate the (perceived) costs of providing amenities to workers, heterogeneity of these costs, and sorting into the provision of amenities. The experiment is currently in preparation and will be fielded in November 2026.
Part 2: Using Vacancy Texts to Measure the Provision of Job Amenities
Part 2: Using Vacancy Texts to Measure the Provision of Job Amenities
Using NLP techniques, we exploit the universe of job vacancies registered with the Federal Employment Agency to measure the supply of amenities in vacancies. We then use these measures to analyze the response of amenities to external labor market conditions and institutional changes. We are currently analyzing the data and conducting validity checks.
Project workshop: The Economics of Non-Wage Amenities
Project workshop: The Economics of Non-Wage Amenities
We are planning to conduct a two-day workshop on the economics of non-wage amenities in late 2027. Call for papers will follow in early 2027.
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