This paper examines the extents and determinants of earned income inequalities in the German Democratic Republic and the ‘former’ Federal Republic of Germany. In both systems income differences can be distinguished on the basis of individual and structural inequalities as well as according to organizational and economic structures. Nevertheless, different theoretical explanations must be used, in particular ...
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the representative German Socio-Economic Panel ...