Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Local day care quality and maternal employment: Evidence from East and West Germany

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extends the literature, which mostly has focused on the importance of day care availability or costs. The authors provide differentiated analyses by the youngest child's age and for West and East Germany to examine moderating influences, such as work-care cultures, ...

Childcare Trends in Germany: Increasing Socio-Economic Disparities in East and West

In East Germany, prior to reunification, day care provision was widely available to encourage mothers to return to work soon after giving birth. Conversely, in West Germany, child care facilities for the under-threes were few and far between and, at the end of the '80s/beginning of the '90s, the length of parental leave was gradually increased to up to three years following the birth of a ...

Trends in der Kinderbetreuung: sozioökonomische Unterschiede verstärken sich in Ost und West

In Ostdeutschland wurde vor der Wende durch eine weitreichende Verfügbarkeit von Kindertagesbetreuung eine rasche Rückkehr von Müttern in die Erwerbstätigkeit gefördert. In Westdeutschland existierte kaum institutionelle Kindertagesbetreuung für unter Dreijährige, und Ende der 80er und Anfang der 90er Jahre wurde der Erziehungsurlaub schrittweise auf bis zu drei Jahre nach einer Geburt ausgeweitet. ...

Expansion of Full-Day Childcare and Subjective Well-Being of Mothers: Interdependencies with Culture and Resources

This study investigates whether an expansion of state-subsidized full-day childcare may improve the subjective well-being of mothers of children under school age by acting as a boundary-spanning resource to facilitate the combination of employment and childcare responsibilities. It extends previous studies that showed contradictory results by demonstrating that the relationship with parental subjective ...

Kürzere Elternzeit von Müttern: gleichmäßigere Aufteilung der Familienarbeit?

Durch die Elterngeldreform 2007 und den Ausbau der Kindertageseinrichtungen der letzten Jahre sind in Deutschland Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen worden, die eine gleichmäßigere Aufteilung der Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit erleichtern sollen. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, ob die Länge der Elternzeit beider Elternteile die Aufteilung der Familienarbeit mittelfristig beeinflusst, wenn beide Partner wieder erwerbstätig ...

Change in the gender division of domestic work after mothers or fathers took leave: exploring alternative explanations

This study investigates how the durations of childcare leaves taken by mothers and fathers in Germany relate to the gender division of housework and childcare after labour market return. It examines to what extent changes in economic resources because of leave take-up may account for adaptations in the division of domestic work of dual-earner couples. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...

Who Enters Fixed-Term Contracts: Evidence from East and West Germany

Response Rates in National Panel Surveys

It has been well documented that response rates to cross-sectional surveys have declined over the past few decades. It is less clear whether response rates to longitudinal surveys have experienced similar changes over time. This article examines trends in response rates in several major, national longitudinal surveys in the United States and abroad. The authors find that for most of these surveys, ...

Perceived discrimination and risk of preterm birth among Turkish immigrant women in Germany

Background: Health disparities, including adverse birth outcomes, exist between Turkish immigrants and the autochthonous population in Germany. The state of research on the risk of preterm birth (PTB, defined as <37 weeks of gestation), the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity, among Turkish immigrant women is mixed. Perceived discrimination is discussed in the context of health disparities ...

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