, comparing average women with mean characteristics, the actually (non-)separated earn lower (higher) wages than women who are …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …

This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses … the economic gap between their countries of origin, German men can marry comparatively more attractive women on the … international marriage market than they could hope to attract within Germany. The analysis uses data from the German Socio …

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … appear to be driven mostly by the wealth function, i.e., the way in which women transform their characteristics into wealth. …

wealth. We test this claim using the introduction of social insurance in Germany in the period 1881-1910. Bismarck’s social … Sozialversicherung in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1881 bis 1910. Bismarcks Sozialversicherungssystem hatte drei Säulen …