public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When …

such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …

integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …

newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first …