Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

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 … women transform their characteristics into wealth. -- Wealth gap ; wealth inequality ; gender ; SOEP …

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by …. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied …

In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 … share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even …

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws …

modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … different retirement incentives for men and women, with little flexibility in the retirement decision for men and substantially … more flexibility for women as a function of financial incentives and household composition. …

spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 … Age Pension reform in Australia increased the eligibility age for Age Pension benefits for women. This reform caused an … increase in participation of men married to women in the affected cohorts. The behavioral responses are due to wealth effects …