Arbeitspapier
Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the selected jobs. We find that women get 33% less interview invitations when they apply for jobs implying a first promotion in functional level. On the other hand, their hiring chances are not significantly affected by the job authority level of the job.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8447
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Discrimination
Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
Labor Contracts
Field Experiments
- Subject
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sticky floors
gender discrimination
hiring discrimination
labour market transitions
European labour markets
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Baert, Stijn
De Pauw, Ann-Sophie
Deschacht, Nick
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Baert, Stijn
- De Pauw, Ann-Sophie
- Deschacht, Nick
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2014
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