This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of … non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample … between employment breaks due to registered unemployment, formal parental leave, training or other reasons – a distinction …

years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full …-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in …

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with … significant wage cuts owing to the depreciation of human capital. Postponing the discontinuity leads to a further fall of the wage …

In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a … simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage … linear spline functions. Second, we detect di¤erent wage-hours profiles for specific groups of individuals. Despite these di …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this …