TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gerst, Benedikt
AU  - Grund, Christian
        TI  - Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender
        PY  - 2017/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10713
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10713
        AB  - This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to differentiate between different reasons for interruptions as well as between various compensation components. We show that career interruptions are more related to lower subsequent bonus payments than they are to fixed salaries and that interruptions caused by unemployment are associated with higher interruption pay gaps than those resulting from other reasons. In addition, the pay gap after career interruptions is more pronounced for male employees than it is for females.
        KW  - career interruptions
KW  - gender pay gap
KW  - stigma effects
KW  - bonus payments
KW  - fixed salaries
KW  - total compensation
        ER  -