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Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors
We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of firm-sponsored training. We find that women in the for-profit sector are less likely to receive classroom training, and receive shorter classroom training courses. However, we find the reverse in the non-profit sector, with women being more likely to receive both classroom and on-the-job training, and also receiving longer classroom training courses. Our results suggest that women's worse training opportunities in the for-profit sector mainly operate within workplaces. We find no evidence that gender gaps in training in the for-profit sector are driven by lower probabilities of accepting training offers, child or family commitments, weaker labour market attachment, or worker self-selection. We also find that gender differences in expected changes in wages and training opportunities between the two sectors can explain a large portion of women's higher probability of employment in the non-profit sector. Finally, decomposition results suggest that gender differences in training explain some of the gender wage gap in the for-profit sector, which is twice as large than in the non-profit sector.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11108
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Firm Organization and Market Structure
Personnel Economics: Training
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- Subject
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gender
non-profit
firm-sponsored training
linked employer-employee data
gender wage gap
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Dostie, Benoît
Javdani, Mohsen
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Dostie, Benoît
- Javdani, Mohsen
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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