We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is … some evidence that the gender gap in upper secondary education reflects the rising share of single parent households which …

birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low … employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …

survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers’ unemployment is causal for offsprings’ employment …