This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of …

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child … childrearing and women's employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply a multilevel discrete time logit … model to estimate first birth risks of western German women. While we find that access to informal care arrangements …

Deutschland. Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Untersuchung stehen dabei ältere Personen im Alter 50+. Die Erfahrungen, die in …-sectional analyses of grip strength in Germany. The focus of the present study is on the analysis of older individuals aged 50+. The …

the effects of child care on mothers' employment in Germany should rather focus on the availabililty than on the …

proposed, on which the empirical investigation of the relationship between properties of the spatial context and women's entry … women during the 1980s and 1990s. None of the estimated multilevel discrete-time logit models provides conclusive evidence … for an autonomous contextual influence on women's entry into parenthood. We find, however, a persistent regional effect on …

In this paper we apply standard cartel theory to identify the major institutional stabilizers of Germany?s area tariff … regulatory measures for injecting competition into Germany?s labor markets that focus on the creation of new options for firms …