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 … which can only be approximated using just the IAB employment sample. Our IV fixed effects estimation results suggest that …

We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …

We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching … that the wage loss increases with the duration of the employment break. …

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 …