1. Introduction; Olga Rymkevich -- Part I. Setting the Framework -- 2. Performance Appraisal Criteria and Innovative Work Behaviour: The Mediating Role of Employees' Appraisal Satisfaction; Ylenia Curzi, Tommaso Fabbri and Barbara Pistoresi -- 3. Performance Appraisal and the Dynamics of Wages;...

Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30....