To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply … the biographical dimension of the gender gap. We observe an average gender lifetime earnings gap of 51.5 percent for birth …

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women’s lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply … the biographical dimension of the gender gap. We observe an average gender lifetime earnings gap of 51.5 percent for birth …

an important source of inequality in lifetime earnings. To establish this we develop and calibrate a rich heterogeneous … calibrated model implies that almost 20 percent of the variance in lifetime earnings is accounted for by differences in lifetime … lifetime earnings via two channels: a direct channel (more hours spent in production at given productivity) and a human capital …

paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their … education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … men's earnings, with effects only developing fully after age 30. These effects play a much larger role for the earnings of …

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution. In the years since Mincer … enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one?s life; why earnings growth is smaller for those …, the paper shows that Mincer?s original finding of a U-shaped (log) variance of earnings over the life cycle is upheld in …

Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect …. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality …: nearly 29 percent of the variation in lifetime earnings at age 65 is due to the fact that Americans face risky and …