Families' Career Investments and Firms' Promotion Decisions.

Autor/inn/en	Almar, Frederik; Friedrich, Benjamin; Reynoso, Ana; Schulz, Bastian; Vejlin, Rune Majlund
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Families' Career Investments and Firms' Promotion Decisions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufliche Investitionen der Familien und Beförderungsentscheidungen der Unternehmen.
Quelle	Bonn (2025), 74 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 17653
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Ehefrau; Ehemann; Familie; Frau; Frauenförderung; Gleichstellungspolitik; Arbeitsteilung; Erwerbstätigkeit; Unternehmen; Beruf; Beruflicher Aufstieg; Erwerbstätiger; Karriereplanung; Weiterbildungsangebot; Managementtraining; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Dänemark
Abstract	"This paper studies how family and firm investments interact to explain gender gaps in career achievement. Using Danish administrative data, we first document novel evidence of this interaction through a "spousal effect" on firm-side career investments. This effect is accounted for by family labor supply choices that shape worker characteristics, which then influence firms' training and promotion decisions. Our main theoretical contribution is to develop a quantitative life cycle model that captures these family-firm interactions through household formation, families' joint career and fertility choices, and firms' managerial training and promotion decisions. We then use the estimated model to show that the interaction between families and firms in the joint equilibrium of labor and marriage markets is important when evaluating firm-side and family-side policy interventions. We find that gender-equal parental leave and a managerial quota can both improve gender equality, but leave implies costly skill depreciation, whereas the quota raises aggregate welfare, in part through adjustments in marital sorting towards families that invest in women." The study refers to the period 1991-2020 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/3