Abstract
We exploit the German separation and later reunification to investigate whether political regimes can shape attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the labor market. During the divided years, East German institutions encouraged female employment, while the West German system deterred women, in particular mothers, from full-time employment. Our results show that East Germans are significantly more likely to hold egalitarian sex-role attitudes than West Germans. Despite a scenario of partial policy convergence after reunification, we find no evidence for a convergence process in gender attitudes. Indeed, if anything, the gap in attitudes rather increased.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > CESifo-Professorship for Social Policy and Labor Markets |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 20152 |
Date Deposited: | 15. Apr 2014, 08:56 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:01 |