-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy …

Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I … measure the socalled part-time wage gap of both, men and women in East and West Germany. A very robust finding is that part …-constant unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in East and West Germany. Furthermore, the type of …

and account for the nonindependence of both careers. Second, I compare evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany …-earner couples are temporarily adversely affected in their careers by long-distance moves in the UK and West Germany after … controlling for various characteristics of both partners. Women in East Germany are not affected by long-distance moves. Moves do …

differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Notwithstanding the country differences concerning welfare state …

remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart …

public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When …

such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes …

integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …