This paper analyses wage discrimination against immigrants in Austria using combined information from the labor force surveys and administrative social security data. We find that immigrants experience a wage disadvantage of 15 percentage points compared to natives. However, a substantial part...

Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...

In dieser Arbeit analysieren wir Einkommensverläufe von Frauen in Österreich. Unser Ziel ist es, mit Hilfe von zusätzlichen erklärenden Variablen wie z.B. dem Alter bei Berufseintritt, der Kinderanzahl oder einer Karenzvariable, Gruppen von erwerbst¨atigen Frauen mit ähnlichen...

This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the effects of labor...