A large body of literature has shown that the gender wage gap is small in the first years after graduation and increases gradually with age, largely because of family decisions, i.e., a penalty caused by childbirth. However, the gender wage gap immediately after graduation has received less...

Die Verwertbarkeit von Bildung und Ausbildung am Arbeitsmarkt ist Bestandteil fast aller bildungspolitischen Diskussionen. Ideologien und Grundhaltungen zur Bildung werden sichtbar, Forderungen hinsichtlich der Erhaltung oder Abschaffung von bestimmten Studienrichtungen rasch abgeleitet. Doch...

This paper investigates the gender wage gap among German university graduates in their first job and five to six years into their careers. We find that women earn about 30% less than men at their first job and about 35% less after five to six years. Results from standard decomposition techniques...

Decisions taken at the start of one’s career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to make is whether to be regionally mobile when looking for the first job. We investigate whether being regionally mobile for the first job following graduation rather than to...