Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao; Smith, Nina
• 署名单位: Aarhus University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Colgate University; Columbia University; Copenhagen Business School; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/733490
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: promotion dynamics; rat race; wage; CONVERGENCE; men; gap; US

摘要

Using Danish registry data linked to the Labor Force Survey, we provide the first rigorous evidence with external validity on the hours-career nexus (positive association between hours and career success). Guided by three theories (human capital, rat race, tournament), we unpack the hours-career nexus through examining the differential effect of hours in the present firm and elsewhere, hours relative to peers' hours, standard versus evening/night/weekend hours, and the importance of sustaining long hours. Supplemented by the time use survey, we show that the gender gap in hours and career success is mostly due to gendered division of labor in household production.