Survey data for a large sample of recent graduates from 37 German universities are used to study labor market outcomes … terms of gender and immigration status). Similar patterns are obtained for job satisfaction and the match quality of …

Gender differences in the frequency of employer changes and their financial return were examined in a sample of … Bavarian university graduates. The search and matching theories were used to develop hypotheses which were then tested against …. In large part this can be explained by gender differences in labor market structures, in particular the fact that a woman …

In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified …-Blinder (1973) decomposition, found in Smith and Welch (1989). I conclude that most of the increase in the gender wage gap occurred …, potential experience and tenure compared men, and that the increasing gender wage gap was mainly due to changes in the gender …

Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market … entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly … largely by different job and firm characteristics of graduates rather than individual or study-related characteristics. We …

of eastern and western German PhD graduates who completed their dissertations between 1995 and 2010. We estimate the … PhD graduates and their place of birth collected from data on PhD dissertations in Germany with data from administrative … of eastern and western German PhD graduates. Our findings show that labor market success is affected neither by being …

We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and … very similar number of hours per week, but men earn more than women across the pay distribution, with an unadjusted gender …