Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training

Jan C. van Ours and Matteo Picchio

No 10930, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive training as full-time working women. Although we cannot rule out gender-working time specific monopsony power, we speculate that the gender-specific effect of working hours on training has to do with gender-specific stereotyping. In the Netherlands, for women it is common to work part-time. More than half of the prime age female employees work part-time. Therefore, because of social norms, men working part-time could send a different signal to their employer than women working part-time. This might generate a different propensity of firms to sponsor training of male part-timers than female part-timers.

Keywords: Firm-sponsored training; Gender; Human capital; Part-time employment; Working hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 C35 J24 M51 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11
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Working Paper: Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training (2015)
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