Germany where public child care is more easily accessible and continuous female employment is a prevalent social norm …Given shortages in public child care in Germany, this paper asks whether social support with child care and domestic … employment transitions of West German, East German and migrant mothers of pre-school children. The results indicate that West …

Western Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves …- and random-effects Generalized Least Square panel regression models. Our results indicate a positive and lasting effect of …

individual beliefs and attitudes in the late 1980s, longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel is used to test the …. Furthermore, this effect still persists several years after the German reunification. -- media ; beliefs ; East Germany ; SOEP …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports counter-cyclical teenage fertility. …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Density discontinuity tests and fixed-effects regressions suggest that married … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she …

Arbeitslosigkeit einzufangen. Bei arbeitslosen Väter sinkt deutschlandweit die Zufriedenheit. Arbeitslose Mütter erleben in den alten … weiblichen Erwerbsmustern in Deutschland interpretiert. …