IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/rif/dpaper/1117.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Gender Differences in the Career Development of Young White-collar Workers

Author

Listed:
  • Nykänen, Pia

Abstract

This study examines gender differences in the career development of young white-collar workers during the first years of their career. In the descriptive analysis the hierarchical level of the first job and the job mobility of men and women are compared. Then, in the econometric part of the study, the probabilities to change jobs and to be promoted are estimated using panel probit models. The empirical dataset consists of a sample drawn from the white-collar worker data gathered by the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK). The results of this study indicate that there are no significant gender differences in job mobility during the first years of the career. Women change jobs and are promoted at least as often as men. However, women are likely to start their careers from less demanding jobs than men. In addition, female jobs often turned out to be dead ends. When the share of women in the job increases both the probability to change jobs and to be promoted decreases.

Suggested Citation

  • Nykänen, Pia, 2008. "Gender Differences in the Career Development of Young White-collar Workers," Discussion Papers 1117, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
    • Handle: RePEc:rif:dpaper:1117
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dp1117.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    gender difference in career development; job mobility;

    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rif:dpaper:1117. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kaija Hyvönen-Rajecki (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/etlaafi.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.