“..."In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the...”

“..."This paper examines the labor-market returns to a new form of postsecondary vocational education, vocational master's degrees. We use individual fixed effects...”

“..."The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment affected women's emancipation as reflected...”

“..."We present supportive empirical evidence and a new theoretical explanation for the negative selection into planned return migration between similar regions in...”

“..."Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both life-cycle facts to one driving force:...”

“..."The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German...”

“..."A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK data, we further find that job-related...”