Germany is generally considered unsuccessful because changes in fertility and labor force participation were modest. However …

interesting test case. The economy in East Germany, but not in West Germany, underwent a rapid decline in 1991. In the same year …, the sex ratio decreased in East Germany, but not in West Germany. Catalano (2003) interpreted these developments as … ESH. First, the sex ratio in East Germany shows stronger deviations from the time trend in several years, and is seemingly …

in the two different institutional and normative contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Using the German Socio … a second birth in Germany, due to the decline in allocation role strain. …

This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain …

The historical population of the Krummhörn region [1720-1850] in the northwest of Germany can be characterized as a non …

Background: After the reunification of Germany, mortality among older eastern Germans converged quickly with western … western Germany to determine whether any changes in downward and in upward transfers in the form of time and money occurred … data sources to test our hypothesis, including mortality rates and time use surveys for East and West Germany and …

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … re-emergence of stark differences between eastern and western Germany after 1970, which have almost disappeared again in … the decades after Germany’s unification in 1990; but also substantial changes in the patterns in northern and southern …

Since the unification of Germany in 1990, the former communist eastern part of the country has experienced substantial … in Germany. In particular, we investigate to what extent East-West differences are related to the fact that parts of … western Germany belong to the European dorsal (or Blue Banana arc), which has long been the most important area of economic …

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous …

for the realization of short-term childbearing intentions is tested in the low-fertility context of Germany. Our …