scholarly journals Differences in family policy and the intergenerational transmission of divorce: a comparison between the former East and West Germany

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henriette Engelhardt ◽  
Heike Trappe ◽  
Jaap Dronkers
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission Of Divorce

scholarly journals Convergence or Divergence? Educational Discrepancies in Work-Care Arrangements of Mothers with Young Children in Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Frederike Stahl ◽  
Pia Sophia Schober
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Care Patterns ◽  
East And West

This study examines how educational differences in work-care patterns among mothers with young children in Germany changed between 1997 and 2013. Since the mid-2000s, Germany has undergone a paradigm shift in parental leave and childcare policies. Our comparative analysis of East and West Germany provides new evidence on whether the long-standing gender regime differences interact with recent developments of social class inequalities in the changing family policy context. The analyses include pooled binary and multinomial logistic regressions based on 17,764 observations of 8604 children below the age of three years from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The findings point to growing educational divergence in work-care arrangements in East and West Germany: employment and day-care use increased more strongly among families with medium and highly educated mothers compared to those with low education. This has critical implications for the latter’s economic security. The decline in the use of informal childcare options was, however, fairly homogenous.

scholarly journals Introduction: Burdens and Beginnings: Rebuilding East and West Germany after Nazism

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-293
Author(s):  
Karen Hagemann ◽  
Konrad H. Jarausch ◽  
Tobias Hof
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractThe introduction discusses the state of the current research on the post-1945 history of East and West Germany, explains the agenda of the special issue and discusses its main topics. The focus is the politics of survival in the chaos of collapse and the controversial debates about the agenda of the reconstruction. In these discussions different visions competed, from the restoration of traditions to efforts of a post-fascist modernization. The introduction questions the postwar success narrative by discussing the “burdens” of the Nazi past, such as Nazi perpetrators, displaced people, expellees and refugees, including the returning German-Jewish survivors. It also engages with the problems of the Cold War division by exploring the “new beginnings”, which were debated in relation to the past of Nazi, Weimar, and Imperial Germany, among them: cultural diplomacy, welfare policy and eldercare, family policy and gender roles, and popular culture. The essay calls for more comparative and transnational research of the postwar era, especially in the areas of the integration into the Cold War blocs, the postwar shifting of borders and peoples, narratives of victimhood, and memory tropes about the war and postwar.

scholarly journals The expansion of low-cost, state-subsidised childcare availability and mothers’ return-to-work behaviour in East and West Germany

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gundula Zoch ◽  
Irina Hondralis
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Second Child ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Level Data ◽  
East And West

This study investigates whether increased availability of low-cost, state-subsidised childcare for under-three-year-olds in Germany is associated with shorter employment interruptions amongst mothers. By focusing on a major childcare reform in East and West Germany, we examine the effect in two contexts that differ markedly in the acceptance and use of formal childcare and maternal employment. We combine rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2006 to 2014) with annual administrative county-level data on the availability of low-cost, state-subsidised childcare, estimating event history models. The results indicate that increased childcare availability for under-three-year-olds reduces mothers’ employment interruptions, particularly after a second childbirth, and increases the probability of returning to part-time or full-time employment as opposed to marginal employment. Furthermore, increased availability of low-cost, state-subsidised childcare increases mothers’ likelihood of returning to employment in the second year after childbirth, when paid leave entitlements expire and the availability of childcare becomes important. However, our results are only statistically significant for West German mothers and only after the birth of a second child. The study extends the literature on women’s return-to-work behaviour by providing evidence on the medium-term impact of family policy on the duration of mothers’ employment interruptions.

scholarly journals The Employment of Mothers – Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

2012 ◽  
Vol 232 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Hanel ◽  
Regina T. Riphahn
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
East German ◽  
East And West ◽  
Low Income Mothers ◽  
Over Time

SummaryWe apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences in the developments for high vs. low and medium skilled females. We find substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low income mothers not to return to the labor market after birth. East German mothers’ employment outcomes matches that expected based on these policy incentives: over time East German mothers with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns.

Trends in the Prevalence of Atopic Eczema in East and West Germany

1998 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-376
Author(s):  
Schäfer ◽  
Krämer ◽  
Vieluf ◽  
Behrendt ◽  
Ring
Keyword(s):  
Atopic Eczema ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
East And West

A Reflection on Crucial Periods in 50 Years of Social Psychology (in Germany)

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Katja Corcoran ◽  
Michael Häfner ◽  
Mathias Kauff ◽  
Stefan Stürmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Early Development ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West

Abstract. In this article, we reflect on 50 years of the journal Social Psychology. We interviewed colleagues who have witnessed the history of the journal. Based on these interviews, we identified three crucial periods in Social Psychology’s history, that are (a) the early development and further professionalization of the journal, (b) the reunification of East and West Germany, and (c) the internationalization of the journal and its transformation from the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie to Social Psychology. We end our reflection with a discussion of changes that occurred during these periods and their implication for the future of our field.

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