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

Matteo Picchio and Jan van Ours

No 9470, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: part-time employment; working hours; firm-sponsored training; gender; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 C35 J24 M51 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2015-11
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Published - published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 125, 192-211

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