TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Picchio, Matteo
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
        TI  - Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
        PY  - 2015/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9470
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9470
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - part-time employment
KW  - working hours
KW  - firm-sponsored training
KW  - gender
KW  - human capital
        ER  -