Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … vary across countries, are one explanation for this. Germany has one of the highest gender pay gaps in Europe compared to …

parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we present an empirical analysis that shows greater support for …

Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

and high incomes. Moreover, alternative methods of taxing married couples in Germany must adhere to specific legal …

by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours …