TY - JOUR
T1 - The disabling effects of enabling social policies on organisations’ human capital development practices for women
AU - Reichel, Astrid
AU - Lazarova, Mila
AU - Apospori, Eleni
AU - Afiouni, Fida
AU - Andresen, Maike
AU - Bosak, Janine
AU - Parry, Emma
AU - Bagdadli, Silvia
AU - Briscoe, Jon P.
AU - Gianecchini, Martina
AU - Suzanne, Pamela
AU - Taniguchi, Mami
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank all members of 5C, the Cross-Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Human Resource Management Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Paid parental leave and externally provided childcare are social policies designed to enhance parents' labour force participation. These policies influence not only men's and women's decisions regarding their labour market activity but also organisational decision makers' (ODMs) expectations about their employees' availability to work and thus, their willingness to invest in their employees' human capital. Using a sample of over 13,000 individuals from 19 countries, we investigate the interaction between gender and social policies on human capital development practices. In line with statistical discrimination theory, which suggests that ODMs hold different expectations about female and male productivity, we find that paid parental leave and externally provided childcare are negatively associated with the provision of human capital development for women but not for men.
AB - Paid parental leave and externally provided childcare are social policies designed to enhance parents' labour force participation. These policies influence not only men's and women's decisions regarding their labour market activity but also organisational decision makers' (ODMs) expectations about their employees' availability to work and thus, their willingness to invest in their employees' human capital. Using a sample of over 13,000 individuals from 19 countries, we investigate the interaction between gender and social policies on human capital development practices. In line with statistical discrimination theory, which suggests that ODMs hold different expectations about female and male productivity, we find that paid parental leave and externally provided childcare are negatively associated with the provision of human capital development for women but not for men.
KW - childcare
KW - contextual HRM
KW - gender
KW - human capital development
KW - parental leave
KW - statistical discrimination
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U2 - 10.1111/1748-8583.12431
DO - 10.1111/1748-8583.12431
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122735290
SN - 0954-5395
VL - 33
SP - 129
EP - 147
JO - Human Resource Management Journal
JF - Human Resource Management Journal
IS - 1
ER -