What Are the Benefits of Having More Female Leaders? Evidence from the Use of Part-Time Work in Italy
研究利用意大利私营企业调查数据，发现女性管理者更倾向于减少非自愿兼职、增加全职岗位，并更愿意批准员工申请的兼职安排，有助于缓解就业不足和促进工作与生活平衡。
Using three waves of a representative survey of Italian private firms, the authors explore the impact of female managers on a firm’s use of part-time work. Building on a literature that suggests female leaders display relatively more altruistic values compared to their male counterparts, the authors assess whether these differences manifest themselves in relation to working time arrangements offered by firms. Results, robust to controls for several time-varying firm-level characteristics and unobserved fixed firm heterogeneity, indicate that female managers are significantly more likely to limit the employment of involuntary part-time workers and correspondingly make greater use of full-time employees. Female managers also are more prone to grant part-time arrangements to employees who request them. Results also suggest that increasing the number of female business leaders may mitigate the problem of underemployment among involuntary part-time workers and contribute to the work–life balance of workers with child care or elder care activities.