experience matter most. In the second essay, I investigate in more detail the role of university majors in explaining the gender … differences in the effects of majors between new entrants and white-collar workers having more work experience. Furthermore …

lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This difference appears to be larger in Europe than in the US …

, temporary. Having returned back to work, mothers work experience ac-cumulates and their earnings seem to catch up with the wage …

first sizably positive and then becomes sizably negative as one looks at plants with higher average seniority and experience … managerial changes does make a difference for plant productivity, less so for wages. In electronics, the Finnish industry … either for wages in electronics. These conclusions survive when a host of other plausible productivity determinants (notably …

wages than women, while the results concerning gender differences in the returns to career progression are not clearcut, but …