Before the 90s, men's employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into...

In the early half of the twentieth century in West Germany the male breadwinner model was dominant with men playing the provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so that they only worked due to the financial...

Im Rahmen der Bildungsexpansion hat sich die Bildungsbeteiligung der Frauen aus der Babyboomer- Kohorte deutlich erhöht. Die Frage ist, ob das gestiegene Bildungsniveau vermittelt über die Erwerbs - verläufe der Frauen auch zu höheren Rentenanwartschaften führt. Hinsichtlich dieser Frage...

Noch in der frühen Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts dominierte das so genannte Ernährermodell, so dass die Frau nach der Heirat sowie Geburt des ersten Kindes in der Regel hauptverantwortlich für die Kindererziehung sowie Haushaltshaltung war, während der Mann sich auf die Erwerbsarbeit...

Before the 90s, men's employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into...

Before the 90s, men's employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into...

Until the mid-1980s, labour markets in Germany were characterized by a high level of employment stability. Employment biographies of men were dominated by full-time employment in both East and West Germany and were hence quite similar in this respect, despite the two regions' enormously...