Abstract
This paper seeks to identify the influence which positive action measures have on young female employees' career-related self-efficacy, focusing on the occurrence of their life events such as marriage and childbirth using Japanese female employee-firm matched data. We classify positive action measures into childcare leave, the loosening of restraint and career development. We also divide careerrelated self-efficacy into career continuance efficacy, promotion efficacy and membership efficacy. We find the following facts. First, while childcare leave heightens career continuance efficacy, the loosening of restraint heightens not only career continuance efficacy but also membership efficacy. Second, the interaction of the loosening of restraint and career development has positive influence on career continuance efficacy. Meanwhile, the interaction of childcare leave and career development has negative influence on career continuance efficacy. These findings show childcare leave does not always lead to their retention and promotion. Therefore this paper suggests the need of both the loosening of restraint and career development for future positive action.
