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 …. Drawing on Goode’s role strain theory, we suggest that the incompatibility of women’s roles is affected not only by allocation … 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 …

than men. These results, which are similar in Britain and Germany, suggest that childbearing increases parental happiness …