@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp9470,
            	author={Picchio, Matteo and Ours, Jan C. van},
            	title={Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training},
            	year={2015},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={9470},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9470},
	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},
            }