'generation 1.5' (migrants arriving as children) and the second generation. It is stronger for women with low education and for …

In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … strongly influences the time spent by both spouses with their children in 2002, but not in 1988. Fathers were much more …

in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts … divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany …

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human …

Der Beitrag vergleicht die Effizienz von zehn zentralen familienpolitischen Leistungen in Deutschland hinsichtlich der …