on the early career as it is found that the first years after labour market entry are of great importance with respect to … the overall gender wage gap. The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay explores the early-career gender … of the factors contributing to the early-career gender wage focuses on university graduates. This mitigates the problems …

providing evidence on the age-productivity and age-earnings profiles for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries … undergoing a major technological and managerial shock in the 1990s, the response of productivity to age-related variables is …

wages than women, while the results concerning gender differences in the returns to career progression are not clearcut, but … depend on the type of career event and on the career phase. Overall, our results helps to understand the factors behind the … large increase in the gender wage gap during the early career observed in the earlier literature. …

paper studies the factors contributing to the gender gap in early-career wage growth. The analysis shows that the size of …

in the family gap in pay remains unclear. This survey on international literature sheds light on the impact of career … interruptions due to the care of newborns on womens career and earnings development. Since there is no Finnish empirical evidence on … the UK. Career interruptions due to the care of newborns seem to have a negative effect on womens earnings. Parental …

, large variation between different fields of study, genders and age groups. The rapid increase in graduating PhDs in recent … for both the diffusion of knowledge in the economy and the development of the career and wage profiles of PhDs. Because of …