This chapter surveys the literature on the gender wage gap in developed countries. The
overarching goals are to provide an overview of the gender wage gap, to examine the extent …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the gender wage gap, with particular attention
given to the identification of the key parameters in human capital wage regression models …

Policy proposals promoting vocational education focus on the school-to-work transition. But
with technological change, gains in youth employment may be offset by less adaptability and …

We estimate a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply, fertility, and savings, incorporating
occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career …

This article studies how portable skills accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data
on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to …

This paper investigates to what extent individuals' risk preferences are correlated with the
cross-sectional earnings risk of their occupation. We exploit data from the German Socio …

Apprenticeship varies greatly across countries, in terms of both quantity (numbers trained)
and quality (skill content); and across sectors and occupations within countries, in terms of …

​ Auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt erweist sich die berufliche Geschlechtersegregation als
erstaunlich stabil. Sie gilt zudem als wichtige Dimension sozialer Ungleichheit zwischen …

A number of studies in the human resources literature acknowledge the importance of
workplace training for inducing organizational commitment on the part of workers. However …

This paper proposes a new measurement for the specificity of occupations based on a
content analysis of training curricula that we link to labor market demands. We apply …