Several studies have shown that income inequality has risen in Germany until 2005. Less focus was put on the rise of …

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 …

return affect the division of housework in couples after a birth. By observing several parental leave policy reforms in … Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of … housework. The analysis uses multilevel multiprocess models for 1220 birth events of British couples and 1785 births to German …

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 …

in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …

less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are …

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

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … of housework but in contrast to the US where women increase their contribution to non-market work when they actually have …