Motherhood and parental leave are frequent causes of worker absences and employment interruptions, yet we know little … benefits affect firm-level employment and hiring decisions. Focusing on small- and medium-sized firms, we show that more … generous benefits reduce firm-level employment in the short term, which is driven by firms with few internal substitutes for …

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with … significant wage cuts owing to the depreciation of human capital. Postponing the discontinuity leads to a further fall of the wage …

increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …

universities are also related to higher risks of unemployment or fixed-term employment. Universities of applied sciences, which … fixed-term employment at the bachelor’s and the master’s level. Overall, ‘general’ academic education provides advantages …

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …