earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a …' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. However, there is a robust wage penalty for an external …

Preferences over jobs depend on wages and non-wage aspects. Variation in wealth may change the importance of income as …

We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire … amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the …

Life cycle wages of immigrants from developing countries fall short of catching up with wages of natives. Using linked …

impact of short parental leave on mothers' employment status and subsequent wages, with a special focus on the part … wages of first mothers at the global level. However, for part-time paid leave takers, the reform increases the employment … rate but decreases the subsequent wages. The wages remain lower two years after child birth, especially for the most …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women’s employment rates but to decrease their wages in case of …

wages compared to stayers. This evidence can be explained by increased mobility costs associated with higher expected risk …