Social Norms and Gender-Typical Occupational Choices.

Autor/inn/en	Palffy, Patricia; Lehnert, Patrick; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
Institution	Swiss Leading House
Titel	Social Norms and Gender-Typical Occupational Choices. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Soziale Normen und geschlechtstypische Berufswahl.
Quelle	Zürich (2021), 46 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working paper / Swiss Leading House. 183
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Rollenverständnis; Soziale Norm; Frauenberuf; Geschlechterrolle; Gleichstellung; Segregation; Arbeitsmarkt; Berufswahl; Männerberuf; Betriebliche Berufsausbildung; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Regionaler Vergleich; Männlicher Jugendlicher; Weibliche Jugendliche; Schweiz
Abstract	"The authors analyze the relationship between social gender norms and the occupational choices of adolescents by combining information about regional votes on a constitutional amendment on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for vocational education and training apprenticeships. Results show that adolescent males in regions with stronger traditional social gender norms are significantly more likely to apply for gender-typical occupations. This finding does not hold for adolescent females, suggesting that males align their occupational choices more strongly with social gender norms than females. Additional analyses reveal that the social gender norms in a region are related to the costs that adolescents living in this region are willing to bear for commuting to a firm where they receive apprenticeship training in either a gender-typical or gender-atypical occupation. The results underscore the importance of policies that factor in social gender norms and encourage not only adolescent females, but also adolescent males to make non-traditional occupational choices." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/4