Who moves up the career ladder? A model of gender differences in job promotion

Empar Pons Blasco () and Luisa Escriche Bertolín
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Empar Pons Blasco: Universitat de València
Luisa Escriche Bertolín: Universitat de València

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: This paper presents an adverse selection model that contributes to explain why women are less likely to be promoted. There are two types of workers: family-committed and job-committed workers. The cost of job effort during the first period of the working life is higher for the former. Firms offer two types of contract, one involving high effort during the first period with promotion possibilities and the other requiring low effort but with no opportunity for promotion attached. We show that women are less likely to apply for jobs with promotion possibilities, but when they do, women are just as likely to succeed as men.

Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Promotions; Asymmetric Information; Status Concerns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2009-09
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