The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel … of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany have both a higher probability of out-of-partnership birth and a … East and West Germany. The differences in single motherhood appear to be rather driven by cultural and economic factors. …

Given shortages in public child care in Germany, this paper asks whether social support with child care and domestic … Germany where public child care is more easily accessible and continuous female employment is a prevalent social norm …

Deutschland. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt nimmt dabei der Zusammenhang zwischen der Form der Kinderbetreuung und dem …

= 411) in corporative-conservative western Germany with mothers in former socialist eastern Germany (n = 528) shows that … Germany, where public childcare is more easily accessible and continuous female employment is a prevalent social norm …

Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) allows for taking into account two political regimes and … that in both parts of Germany women’s probability of having a first child is negatively correlated with both employment and …