This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data … of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to differentiate between different reasons for … interruptions as well as between various compensation components. We show that career interruptions are more related to lower …

"control person" another economist who had a similar career but had not visited. The matching of the control may be viewed as …

percent over the course of an average career as compared to a small birth cohort counterpart. The loss in earnings is driven … would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are …

different mobility and career patterns. Patient workers undertake behaviors that lead to promotions. Impatient workers are more …

choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career … choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000), we consider a model of career choice and identity where … related to identity (career orientation and social orientation), which are important for educational choices. The implication …

In this paper we analyze career dynamics for the large share of U.S. workers who have more schooling than their peers …

and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …

We analyze individual career transitions of men and women in Germany. Our particular focus is on the association of … significant negative relationship between the contemporaneous probability of having a child and horizontal career transitions for … women, and a positive significant association of the hazard of parenthood with upward career transitions for men. These …