During the last decades the appearance of a family has changed substantially. Not long ago a typical family consisted of an employed man and a home-managing woman living together for their whole life times, and having one or more children, which primarily were raised by the wife. Today differing...

Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen einer Einführung des von der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion vorgeschlagenen "Familiengeldes" auf öffentliche Finanzen, Arbeitsmarkt und die wirtschaftliche Situation von Familien mit Kindern im Vorschulalter, die als Adressaten des Familiengeldes...

Increasing maternal employment rates engage policies and people for decades. It is pushed but also questioned at the same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner model is traditionally favored. The parent's money reform...

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...