The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
Lutz Kaiser ()
Additional contact information
Lutz Kaiser: FHoeV NRW
No 300349, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Abstract:
The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations. Firstly, the theoretical background and the literature are identified. Within this frame, the instance of self-under-estimated career prospects of female workers and statistical discrimination in the labor market are described. Both aspects are jointly assessed as a self-fulfilling prophecy-phenomenon redounded to women?s disadvantage on the labor market. Secondly, the empirical part analysis the respective self- and reciprocal estimation of female and male career prospects for public sector workers in Germany. The results display obvious discrepancies between self- and reciprocally estimated career expectations that constitute a gender-career estimation gap. As the German public sector contains specific devices to equalising career chances of male and female employees, the findings even underpin the insistency of under-estimated career prospects of female workers despite the existing public sector regime of equality. Finally, approaches of how to equalize male and female career chances are critically reviewed.
Keywords: self- and reciprocal estimation of career opportunities; gender-career estimation gap; statistical discrimination; self-fulfilling prophecy; public sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J24 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2014-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hme
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)
Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 11th International Academic Conference, Reykjavik, Jul 2014, pages 164-195
Downloads: (external link)
https://iises.net/proceedings/11th-international-a ... cid=3&iid=25&rid=349 First version, 2014
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sek:iacpro:0300349
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klara Cermakova ().