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 …

Government policies are encouraging older workers to delay retirement, which may curb younger workers' career … advancement. We study a Dutch reform that raised the retirement age by 13 months and nearly tripled employment at age 66. Using … of the additional hours worked by older workers, disproportionately affect career advancement for younger workers and …

determinant of the career decisions of young workers. Building on the search-theoretic career choice and job mobility model … proposed by Neal (1999), I compare the consequences of career advice by one's weak ties versus that by strong ties. The main … result is that receiving help from weak ties is associated with early career and job settlements, while the strong ties are …

Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over …. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly using a rich Australian longitudinal data set. A dynamic random effects …, both of which are important to over-education analysis. Contrary to career theory, the results point to job mismatch as an …

Temporary economic shocks can have enduring effects on individuals and their career trajectories. This paper …

would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are … percent over the course of an average career as compared to a small birth cohort counterpart. The loss in earnings is driven … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …

We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes …. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and their inherent economic uncertainty imply a …