This paper deals with the effects of entry into motherhood on women's employment dynamics. Our analysis is based on the complete lifetime working- and income histories of a 1% sample of all persons born between 1934 and 1971 and employed in West Germany sometime between 1975 and 1995. We use the...

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firm- and age-specific...

Einflussreiche Studien gehen davon aus, dass sich die Bedingungen beim Berufseinstieg langfristig auf den Berufsverlauf von Arbeitskräften im Betrieb auswirken. Obwohl es unter Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern seit langem umstritten ist, ob die anhaltenden Lohnunterschiede zwischen Betrieben und...