Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …

data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …

of uncertainty measures based on GSOEP data from Eastern (and for comparison purposes also Western) Germany for the years … Eastern Germany during its transition than in Western Germany and had a highly nonlinear effect on the probability of a birth … uncertainty in East Germany in the transition could have contributed significantly to the sharp fall and unusually low level of …

The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller … empirical test of this theory, until now, has been performed by McGoldrick and Robst (1996). Their results, using US data, do … not support the theory. Using German panel data (GSOEP), we also test the theory of differential overqualification. Unlike …

countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …

the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …

reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …