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 …

Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I … unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in West and East Germany. Furthermore, the type of … that the part-time wage gap shrinks, the empirical evidence reveals that wage differentials in West-Germany increased over …