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 …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

certified language proficiency levels among refugees in Germany. The residence rule restricts initial residence for refugees with … that stricter statutory provisions have a positive effect on the probability to complete a language course and on the level … of certified language proficiency. The results indicate that this effect is driven partly by spatial mismatch. …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …

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. …