Research Seminar Series: Dr. Marco Caliendo

We are thrilled to invite you to the upcoming session of the Research Seminar Series at the Asia School of Business, featuring Dr. Marco Caliendo.

Seminar Title:

When Managers Choose: Gender Disparities in Employer Training Provision

Event Details:

📅 Date: 5 December 2025

⏰ Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

📍 Venue: CR-W2-03

🔗 Mode: Hybrid

💻 Zoom Link: https://asb-my.zoom.us/j/95134179989?pwd=IAPu2HbcuIBE9TwoysIsKeQ6aZUwCf.1

Meeting ID: 925 1956 0102

Passcode: 691097

About the Speaker: Dr. Marco Caliendo is Professor of Empirical Economics and Speaker of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) at the University of Potsdam, a faculty member of the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE), and Co-Editor of Labour Economics. He holds a PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt and is a Research Fellow of IZA, DIW, IAB, and RFBerlin.
He has published over 70 articles in refereed journals, including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Research Policy, European Economic Review, and Journal of Applied Econometrics. His work is cited about 6,600 times in the SSCI and more than 21,700 times on Google Scholar.
His research interests include labor market policy evaluation, human capital investments, job search and unemployment dynamics, and the role of personality traits in economic outcomes.

Abstract: We examine whether managers’ gender shapes the provision of training opportunities. Drawing on a large-scale vignette experiment with German managers, we find that women are, on average, slightly more likely than men to receive training offers. However, the gender of the manager crucially conditions this pattern. Female managers are less likely to provide training to young female employees, particularly in competitive, male-dominated, and non-unionized firms. Male managers, in contrast, favor male candidates when training is fully employer-funded.
These findings imply that training allocations are not purely efficiency-driven, since they systematically depend on who makes the decision. Our results uncover a mechanism through which managerial gender influences access to human capital investments, thereby shedding light on how subtle biases in organizational decision-making may reinforce gender inequalities in career advancement.

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