There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural … participation (FLFP) in East Germany as compared to West Germany. The starting point of the analysis is the empirical pattern that …

In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany-despite the decline in the working-age population … labor market. Most recently, Germany’s potential labor force has grown as a consequence of many factors, including migration … the future, Germany will be more or less reliant on migration. This is the finding of various model calculations showing …

in Germany finds that partners revert to traditional gendered divisions of labour when they become parents. We find that …

We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by …Wir analysieren, ob der Anstieg der weiblichen Erwerbsbeteiligung in Deutschland in den letzten Jahrzehnten durch den …

representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …

re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour …, of higher pre-war female labour supply in East Germany, this paper shows an almost negligible long-term socialist … German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …