Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …

productivity growth - exacerbates macroeconomic disparities in terms of labour productivity. While nominal wages act as a potential …

one-fifth of eastern German firms in the private sector paid wages that were higher than the collective contract wages … of the wage gap have been falling in recent years. One important explanation for firms paying higher wages can be found …

The access and use of administrative health data in Germany is limited by several factors. Due to the large number and …-transparent manner. Linkage of health data with other data sources is hardly possible for legal and logistic reasons. These limitations … of individual administrative data, we propose several measures to improve access to health data in Germany. …

Women fulfil a wide variety of roles on farms - farm manager, household manager, other family member work-ing on the … farm, partner, mother, cook, carer and many more. The majority of the women interviewed experience this variety of roles as …, long distances in rural areas and little free time are aggravating factors for many women. Despite their high motivation to …