-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that …

public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …

cohabitation in Germany. Background: Wealth can be an important resource to deal with the adverse economic consequences of union …. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is not governed by such rules in most countries, including Germany, which may lead to …

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …

program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was …

participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables …. Since the majority of women in Germany do not go back to work within a year after childbirth, we also investigate their …

issues empirically using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance …