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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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Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...
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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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I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France …. Estimation results show that while the presence of children and marital status are related to the choice to work part time in …
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differences-in-differences design to investigate a reform in Germany that granted the right to work part-time to employees of …
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We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...
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