Given shortages in public child care in Germany, this paper asks whether social support with child care and domestic … Germany where public child care is more easily accessible and continuous female employment is a prevalent social norm …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

Western Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after … the incomes of their former peers in East Germany and the relatively higher earnings of their new peers in West Germany … Germany after the reunification; a deviation from the Easterlins' paradox. -- Migration ; subjective well-being ; happiness …

This paper examines regional differences in subjective well-being (SWB) in Germany. Inferential statistics indicate a … diminishing but still significant gap between East and West Germany, but also differing levels of SWB within both parts. The … "satisfaction gap" between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing macroeconomic conditions. Moreover, the effects of …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu …

' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … social interactions between neighbours take place. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are … there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …