differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …

were much more likely to suffer income losses than employees. Among the self-employed, women were 35% more likely to … experience income losses than men, as women are disproportionately working in industries that are more severely affected by the …

leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women … who specialized in household production, with no market work. Only women who were unemployed reported lower levels of life …

labor supply choices. This is mainly due to the fact that East German women are much more attached to the labor market. …

employment characteristics of women and men, we are able and identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension … data is available for 2012 only. Individual level wealth data allows to analyze the gender wealth gap between women and men …

. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women's and men's earnings using … the first child to be -10500€ for women and +6800€ for men. When comparing the percentage loss of potential earnings, I find … that women suffer a long-run child penalty of 63% compared to men. I then examine the relationship between the treatment …

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. …

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 …

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 …