%0 Report
        %A Picchio, Matteo
%A Ours, Jan C. van
        %T Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9470
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9470
        %X 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.
        %K part-time employment
%K working hours
%K firm-sponsored training
%K gender
%K human capital