Inhalt: METHODISCH KONZEPTIONELLE BEITRÄGE (u. a. Habich, Roland: Objektive und subjektive Indikatoren - Ein Vorschlag zur Messung des Wandels von Lebenslagen). - HAUSHALTSBEZOGENE ANALYSEN ZU INNERFAMILIALER ARBEITSTEILUNG, BILDUNG, LEBENSFORMEN UND WOHNEN (u. a. Binder, Marion/Wagner, Gert:...

At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...

An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that the level and the structure of unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below...