childcare are strikingly different in France than in Western Germany, reflecting long-standing policy orientations. Attitudes …

entering marriage in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. We link micro-information from the German Socio-Economic Panel … example. Consistent with a previous study on female nuptiality in Germany, our findings (which also include a significant …

This paper examines the relationship between work and family among men in Western Germany. We investigate the extent to …

The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data … increasing popularity of the Berlin region, the distribution of East to West migrants across West Germany is fairly stable over …

lower than the corresponding level in France and well above the level in West Germany. (In 2004 the Swedish TFR reached 1 …

systems: the USA, the Netherlands and West Germany. Using longitudinal survey data, we examine the transitions of leaving home …

This paper compares the non-marital birth pattern in France and West Germany. Since the beginning of the eighties …, France witnessed a steady increase in non-marital birth rates, while in West Germany non-marital birth rates have remained at … family forms in both countries. In West Germany, we find a polarization in a "family sector" and a "non-family sector" while …

change in variance has been ignored so far. In the case of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, this paper explores how much of …