East Germany has undergone rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We … accounts for selection bias issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, gender discrimination …

A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that … contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women's traditional role in the household. Child … a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the fundamental gender-driven career/family conflict faced by workers in the …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … robust segregation effects. Working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender …

In Deutschland liegen die von abhängig Beschäftigten gewünschten Wochenarbeitszeiten im Durchschnitt zwischen knapp 30 … vereinbarten Wochenarbeitszeit; er betrüge dann acht Stunden. Die hier präsentierten Arbeitszeitanalysen, die für Deutschland auf …

reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher …