A Re-Assessment of Common Theoretical Approaches to Explain Gender Differences in Continuing Training Participation

Autor(en)

Martina Dieckhoff, Nadia Steiber

Abstrakt

It is often argued that gender differences in access to continuing training are a central cause of persisting gender inequalities in occupational attainment. Yet existing empirical work has presented rather mixed evidence regarding a potential sex gap in training participation. In this article, we carry out an empirical test of the central theoretical models commonly used to explain gender differences in continuing training participation. Using the European Social Survey, we find that male employees are more likely to train than their female colleagues, controlling for worker, firm and job characteristics, with some tentative evidence for differences across countries. Common theoretical approaches to understanding gender differences in continuing skill investment to some degree explain men's training incidence, while they largely fail to predict that of women.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

European University Institute (EUI)

Journal

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Band

49

Seiten

s135-s157

ISSN

0007-1080

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00824.x

Publikationsdatum

2011

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504030 Wirtschaftssoziologie, 504014 Gender Studies, 502001 Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/49a3cb43-a9d1-430f-aa51-40d10de8fbfa