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 …-level wage losses contribute to the wage penalty to an equal degree. Counterfactual simulations demonstrate that financial …

We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks …, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life …-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both permanent wage and hours shocks are important to explain earnings risk, but wage …

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 …-run wage profiles, and substantially influences the employment effects of a widely discussed policy reform, the introduction of …

quality caused by the evolution of the pandemic can be attributed to changes in lifestyles, worsened mental health and …

the wage distribution, and employees in the accommodation and food industry still have no access to paid sick leave …

Wage expectations for full- and part-time employment are key for understanding the labor supply decisions of women … survey data, I quantify the expected full-time/part-time wage differential for a representative sample of female workers. I … document that women, on average, expect only minor part-time wage penalties (1-3 percent). Comparing beliefs to selectivity …