In the early half of the twentieth century in West Germany the male breadwinner model was dominant with men playing the … provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … way. The present paper deals with the question if and how the employment careers of West German women with at least one …

survey of policy changes in the Scandinavian countries and Germany as other determinants of labor force participation in the …

We provide difference-in-differences evidence from Germany on the effect of deregulating weekday shop opening hours on … employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours … increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop corresponding to an aggregate employment effect of 3 to 4 per cent. The effect was …

Am 1. Januar 2015 wurde in Deutschland der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn eingeführt. Wir identifizieren …

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time …

western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase … in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east-west divide prevails. Evidence of this can be found in the latest data …, which was conducted for the first time in eastern Germany in 1990—shortly before economic, currency, and social union. Other …

We provide difference-in-differences evidence from Germany on the effect of deregulating weekday shop opening hours on … employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours … increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop corresponding to an aggregate employment effect of 3 to 4 per cent. The effect was …