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June 2, 2025

How administrative data fosters young economists’ careers

Unlocking potential or reinforcing hierarchies?

  • administrative data
  • career
  • economics
  • Anthony Lepinteur
  • Roberto Nistico
Research

September 9, 2024

Employee Stock Ownership Plans boost job satisfaction in U.S. manufacturing sector

Study finds higher satisfaction with culture, leadership, and work-life balance in employee-owned firms

  • career
  • collective bargaining
  • culture
  • employee ownership
  • ESOP
  • job satisfaction
  • leadership
  • work-life balance
  • Adrianto Adrianto
  • Ainhoa Urtasun
  • Avner Ben-Ner
  • Jason Sockin
Research

March 29, 2022

How COVID-19 affects educational choices in high school

Students in Sweden moved away quickly from service-oriented vocational programs

  • career
  • COVID-19
  • education
  • field of study
  • high school
  • Aino-Maija Aalto
  • Dagmar Müller
  • J. Lucas Tilley
Research

April 22, 2021

Happy power couples?

Working in the same occupation or industry as your partner increases satisfaction with life, work and income

  • assortative matching
  • career
  • copreneurs
  • gender
  • relationship
  • well-being
  • work-life balance
  • work-linked couples
  • Clemens Hetschko
  • Juliane Hennecke
Research

September 24, 2020

What explains the unexplained gender pay gap?

Family choices affect pay differences between men and women

  • career
  • choice
  • discrimination
  • family
  • gender pay gap
  • Christian Bredemeier
  • Dorothée Averkamp
  • Falko Juessen
IZA NewsResearch

August 31, 2020

Graduating in a pandemic may lead to long-term income losses

IZA Expert Panel reveals country differences in labor market researchers’ expectations

  • career
  • COVID-19
  • education
  • graduate
  • school-to-work
  • youth unemployment
Research

March 16, 2020

Do women shy away from public speaking?

Field experiment shows female students are less willing to present to a larger audience

  • anxiety
  • career
  • gender gap
  • public speaking
  • university
  • Maria De Paola
  • Rosetta Lombardo
  • Valeria Pupo
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

February 26, 2020

Does it pay to start your career with a job at a larger firm?

Size matters for young workers' long-term outcomes

  • career
  • entry job
  • firm size
  • job search
  • lifetime income
  • skills
  • Jaime Arellano-Bover
Research

January 4, 2019

Stalled progress of women in economics

Productivity differences do not explain gender disparity in promotion rates

  • academics
  • career
  • economics
  • equal opportunity
  • gender discrimination
  • harassment
  • Jenna Stearns
  • Shelly Lundberg
Research

January 17, 2018

What drives the gender pay gap?

The earnings differential between men and women is a recurring topic in academic research and policy debates. While the gender […]

  • age-earnings profile
  • career
  • discrimination
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • household division of labor
  • part-time work
  • productivity
  • sorting
  • wage inequality
  • willingness to compete
  • Claudia Olivetti
  • Erling Barth
  • Isabelle Sin
  • Kai Liu
  • Richard Fabling
  • Sari Pekkala Kerr
  • Steven Stillman
Research

August 11, 2017

Unpaid graduate internships: Career boost or bust?

The rising prevalence of unpaid internships as a gateway to highly competitive careers in law, politics, creative industries, media and […]

  • career
  • experience
  • graduate
  • income
  • internship
  • job
  • salary penalty
  • Angus J. Holford
  • Nils Saniter
  • Thomas Siedler
Research

May 9, 2017

How personality is affected by birth order and birth spacing

The family environment is among the most important factors in the development of a child’s personality. It is evident that […]

  • birth order
  • birth spacing
  • career
  • child development
  • competition
  • education
  • family
  • parents
  • personality
  • siblings
  • Bart H.H. Golsteyn
  • Björn Öckert
  • Cécile A. J. Magnée
  • Erik Grönqvist
  • Jason M. Fletcher
  • Sandra E. Black
  • Stefanie Schurer
Research

February 29, 2016

Why do many European graduates end up in lower-paid jobs?

Skill mismatch has become an issue of increasing policy concern in the aftermath of the economic crisis, which saw high […]

  • career
  • Europe
  • graduates
  • job characteristics
  • labor market
  • overeducation
  • skill content
  • skills mismatch
  • Konstantinos Pouliakas
  • Seamus McGuinness
Research

June 17, 2015

How to increase the attractiveness of STEM for female students

Women have been traditionally under-represented in college major fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Analyzing the reasons is […]

  • career
  • college major
  • gender differences
  • grading
  • scholarships
  • STEM
  • university
  • workload
  • Peter Arcidiacono
Research

February 7, 2014

How important are your professors for your career?

Everybody who went to university remembers inspiring and motivated professors, but also really dull ones. A new IZA Discussion Paper […]

  • academic performance
  • career
  • college teaching
  • labor market outcomes
  • professors
  • quality
  • Marco Paccagnella
  • Michela Braga
  • Michele Pellizzari

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