Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I … measure the socalled part-time wage gap of both, men and women in East and West Germany. A very robust finding is that part …-constant unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in East and West Germany. Furthermore, the type of …

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 …