Based on panel data from 1997 to 2018, we investigate the socioeconomic preconditions and economic consequences of 'shared parenting (SP)' forms in Germany. Referring to the post-separation year, we build SP groups from information on child residence and fathers' childcare hours during a regular...

This paper investigates the role of work experience in migrant mothers' current employment in Germany. Unlike previous papers, we fo-cus on actual experience and add the motherhood aspect. To this end, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 2013-2018 including the IAB-SOEP Migration...

Single mothers often experience precarious financial conditions. However, it is not fully understood to what extent separation is the cause of these conditions versus being their consequence. Estimating an endogenous switching regression model based on a sample of 626 separated and 5,525...