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I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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. However, whether women expect different wages between part-time and full-time work is not fully understood. Using German …
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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages …
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We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of parttime penalties in hourly wages and …
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