I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the … part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage … accumulation within career levels. A part-time spell of four years marks the point at which forgone chances of promotion and within …

This paper studies if workers infer from correlation about causal effects in the context of the part-time wage penalty …. Differences in hourly pay between full-time and part-time workers are strongly driven by worker selection and systematic sorting …. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages …

Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women … the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a structural life-cycle model to quantify how beliefs influence labor … supply, earnings and welfare over the life cycle. The bias increases part-time employment strongly, induces flatter long …

This paper studies if workers infer from correlation about causal effects in the context of the part-time wage penalty …. Differences in hourly pay between full-time and part-time workers are strongly driven by worker selection and systematic sorting …. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages …

This paper studies if workers infer from correlation about causal effects in the context of the part-time wage penalty …. Differences in hourly pay between full-time and part-time workers are strongly driven by worker selection and systematic sorting …. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages …