This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who … point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial …

, education, being out of the labour force and annual earnings. A non-parametric propensity score matching approach adapted for …

This paper introduces an index that facilitates the testing of differing matching theories based on the degree of … overlap between a theoretically generated matching joint density and its empirical counterpart. The index is asymptotically … matching patterns in the marriage market in China. To distinguish between confounding policies of the period, a static general …

decisions as well as the prevailing wages in these two employment markets. A semi-parametric random effects estimator and the …-time employment, and child care payment, and the linear equations of the price of child care, and part-time and full-time wages in a …

decisions as well as the prevailing wages in these two employment markets. A semi-parametric random effects estimator and the …-time employment, and child care payment, and the linear equations of the price of child care, and part-time and full-time wages in a …

decisions as well as the prevailing wages in these two employment markets. A semi-parametric random effects estimator and the …-time employment, and child care payment, and the linear equations of the price of child care, and part-time and full-time wages in a …

plausible, one must be able to control for all characteristics affecting both union status and wages. This requires very … set by collective bargaining. We find a raw 17-25% union premium in gross hourly wages for the private sector in Britain …, depending on the sub-group used. However, post-matching this difference falls to between 3% and 6%. This indicates that the …

comparing only workers with the same characteristics, the results from time series and matching decomposition methodologies show …