Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample … between employment breaks due to registered unemployment, formal parental leave, training or other reasons - a distinction … which can only be approximated using just the IAB employment sample. Our IV fixed effects estimation results suggest that …

accounts using GSOEP data from 2002. We compare wages of employees with and without work time accounts by propensity score … matching. Our results indicate that work time accountees receive higher wages on average, thus suggesting an employer …

We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching … approach where mothers’ wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm … motherhood, since we find first births to reduce women’s wages by 16 to 19 percent, regardless of the matching procedure applied …