Women and the labour market in East and West Germany: The role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
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Keywords
Female labour force participation; Gender; Attitudes toward work; Regional labour markets;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- N34 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: 1913-
- P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
- P30 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - General
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2019-11-04 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LMA-2019-11-04 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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