On behavioural theory basis, this article analyses whether religion influences married women in Germany in their …

overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on …

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on … the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system …

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 …

opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …

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 …

ever before. Do these developments hold also for Germany? Based on socio-economic and demographic analysis of gender …

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …