Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149173 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10314
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using three waves of a uniquely rich survey on Italian private firms, we explore the impact of female managers on the use of part-time work. Building on a literature arguing that female leaders are more sensitive to their employees' needs and more self-transcendent than their male counterparts, we assess whether such attitudes manifest themselves also in relation to working time arrangements. Results indicate that female managers are indeed more responsive to their employees' needs: they heavily limit the employment of involuntary part-time work, correspondingly increasing full-time employment, and concede more part-time arrangements to employees asking for them. All in all, our results show that there are some hitherto unexplored benefits from increasing the number of female leaders: on the one hand, they strongly contain the widespread phenomenon of involuntary part-time employment and, on the other hand, they enhance the work-life balance of workers engaged in child care or elderly care activities.
Subjects: 
female managers
part-time work
involuntary part-time work
work-life balance
meeting employees' needs
self-transcendence
JEL: 
J23
J41
M51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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