This paper examines the relationship between the timing of childbirth and the motherhood penalty among high-skilled Danish women. Earlier studies typically find that delaying first childbirth increases female earnings. However, postponing the first birth may also have negative fertility...

We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a newly constructed, century-spanning dataset on...

Trade unions and employers' associations play an important role in Germany not only in wage setting, but also in social policy and labour market regulation. While the majority of companies are organised in employers' associations, less than one fifth of employees are still members of a trade...

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower-paying employers. To interpret this fact, we develop an equilibrium search model with endogenous firm pay, amenities, and hiring. We provide a constructive proof of identification of...

This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our findings highlight the importance of labor-market entry to understand the...

infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences (infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH) was commissioned to survey refugees from Ukraine by the Socio-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für...

Die infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH wurde vom Soziooekonomischen Panel (SOEP) am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) mit der Befragung von Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine beauftragt. Die Studie wird gemeinsam vom Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und...

Given the recent reconcentration of the economy in many private industries, the impact of working in firms of different sizes on occupational and political outcomes is of renewed interest. Using micro-level data for the US and Germany, two most dissimilar cases in terms of labor market and...