: individuals who finish their PhD when the average team in their field is larger have worse career prospects. Our analysis combines … data on career outcomes from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients with publication data that measures team size from ISI Web …

question by comparing the scientific merit of male and female academic economists who make the same career step. Across four … makes the same career step. In most domains, this reflects a gender gap for "marginal" scholars, consistent with lower merit …

The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations …-under-estimated career prospects of female workers and statistical discrimination in the labor market are described. Both aspects are jointly … empirical part analysis the respective self- and reciprocal estimation of female and male career prospects for public sector …

work is on average declining along the career, and that the quality of apprenticeship is strongly related to the future …