throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly … more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births …. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference between East and West Germany can be explained by economic factors …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … the differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder …

throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …