Die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien haben stark im Berufs- und Alltagsleben Einzug gehalten. Dieser Trend zur fortschreitenden Digitalisierung und Automatisierung wird sich in den nächsten Jahren fortsetzen, und IKT-Kompetenzen werden weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen. Daher gilt es den...

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We document an economically significant correlation of...