different institutional and cultural contexts; Eastern Germany, Western Germany and the United Kingdom. The analyses show that … part-time employment in both Eastern and Western Germany, but observe no such trend in the UK. This is suggestive of … ongoing incompatibilities in the institutional support for equality in dual-earning in Germany. The study uses longitudinal …

. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US …

: the division of housework between couples, the work-life conflict, gender earning gaps and the transition to retirement … flexibilization of labour markets. Results were interpreted taking the institutional context in Germany into account, partly in direct … flexibility can be related to different outcomes for men and women. While autonomy at work is related to less housework for men …