This paper aims to identify the major factors influencing female labor force participation (FLFP) in Egypt and Germany …, the question remains, to what extent these determinants differ between Egypt and Germany. This paper attempts to shed … collaboration with Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) and the 2012 German Socio-Economic Panel …

Despite much recent changes in gender relations, housework remains an area where women bear primary responsibility …. This paper examines the role of policy and employment context on housework, not only for women who live with partners, but … also for single women. I study German women's housework in the decade after unification, which allows me to simultaneously …

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …

This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses … the economic gap between their countries of origin, German men can marry comparatively more attractive women on the … spouse on the German marriage market, which in turn increases the likelihood of them seeking marriage with women from poorer …

women after the dissolution of marriage. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is related to losses in wealth for women, but …

initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women … late motherhood is associated with lower psychological well-being in East Germany. Moreover, among Western German women … "normative" life course track supposedly had adverse effects on women's health in West Germany. …

-Economic Panel (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples, men have, on average, 33,000 Euro more net worth than women. We look at ….g. self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …

partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … appear to be driven mostly by the wealth function, i.e., the way in which women transform their characteristics into wealth. …