This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study … ambiguous reactions. An empirical analysis for Germany shows that minimum wages would affect total labor supply only weakly. Yet …

participation and their wages have risen substantially. Our results suggest that there are gender-specific differences, e.g. female …

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … and gender equality. We address this question by examining the influence of works councils on the gender policies of … establishments in Germany. Using data of the IAB Establishment Panel, we find that the incidence of a works council is associated …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …

labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply …This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to …

This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …