Political regimes and the family: how sex-role attitudes continue to differ in reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut

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“…Even though most men and women report that the family is more valuable than work and even there have been many changes in the household production allocation the last 50 years, the traditional gender roles persist. The study by Bauernschuster and Rainer (2010) explored and compared the gender role attitudes between Eastern and Western Germany and they found that these attitudes are less traditional in Eastern Germany because of the different political systems suggesting that the gender roles might diverge in the western world.…”

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The Effects of Teleworking on Housework Division and Well-Being of Couples

Giovanis

2017

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This study examines the relationship between teleworking, gender roles and happiness of couples using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the Understanding Society Survey (USS) during the period 1991-2012. Various approaches are followed, including Probit-adapted fixed effects, multinomial Logit and Instrumental variables (IV). The results support that both men and women who are teleworkers spend more time on housework, while teleworking increases the probability that the household chores examined in this study, such as cooking, cleaning ironing and childcare, will be shared relatively to those who are nonteleworkers. In addition, women are happier when they or their spouse is teleworker, as well as, both men and women are happier when they state that the specific household chores are shared. Thus, women teleworkers may be happier because they can face the family demands and share the household chores with their spouse, increasing their fairness belief about the household division allocation and improving their well-being, expressed by happiness.

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The Effects of Teleworking on Housework Division and Well-Being of Couples

Giovanis

2017

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“…Marital behavior differs sharply between the two previously separate German states, as unmarried parenthood is very common in the East, where more than 60 % of children are born to unmarried mothers. In addition to a large EastWest gap in nuptiality patterns, eastern and western Germans differ sharply when it comes to women's employment patterns and attitudes towards maternal employment, and these differences have been found to persist even among the generation of eastern and western Germans who were born and raised after reunification (Bauernschuster / Rainer, 2012). This ongoing gap in family and fertility patterns suggests that women and men do not mechanically adjust their behavior to new constraints, but that attitudes have their own dynamics, and are resistant to change even under new economic and institutional conditions (Huinink et al, 2012).…”

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DemoDiff: A Dataset for the Study of Family Change in Eastern (and Western) Germany

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Schmollers Jahrbuch

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“…The researchers explain their findings by an establishment of constant behavioral norms early in life. Bauernschuster and Rainer (2012) show a widening of the east-west gap in sex-role attitudes, for example regarding the statement whether it is important for a women to support her husband's career instead of her own. Heineck and Süssmuth (2010) find persistence of a lower level of social trust in East Germany.…”

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Persistence or Convergence? The East—West Tax-Morale Gap in Germany

Möhlmann¹

2014

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This paper studies differences in tax morale attitudes between East and West Germany using multiple recent data sets. Contrary to previous 1990s evidence, but in line with recent studies on an east-west mentality gap, we find a persistent higher tax morale in East Germany and no indication of convergence over time. Distinguishing between region of living and birth and periods of within-country migration reveals that the East Germans who stayed determine the results and that migration vanishes differences. Regional economic heterogeneity of tax revenue transfers cannot explain the results. We find a framing effect on the tax morale gap with questions phrasing tax paying as the duty of a good citizen. This result suggests no gap of tax morale with moral reasoning related to the social order and citizenry.Keywords -tax morale, German reunification, east-west differences, convergence, moral reasoning JEL classification: H26, H73 Persistence or Convergence? The East-West Tax Morale Gap in GermanyAbstract This paper studies differences in tax morale attitudes between East and West Germany using multiple recent data sets. Contrary to previous 1990s evidence, but in line with recent studies on an east-west mentality gap, we find a persistent higher tax morale in East Germany and no indication of convergence over time. Distinguishing between region of living and birth and periods of within-country migration reveals that the East Germans who stayed determine the results and that migration vanishes differences. Regional economic heterogeneity of tax revenue transfers cannot explain the results. We find a framing effect on the tax morale gap with questions phrasing tax paying as the duty of a good citizen. This result suggests no gap of tax morale with moral reasoning related to the social order and citizenry.

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Political regimes and the family: how sex-role attitudes continue to differ in reunified Germany

Abstract: Political regimes, Gender-role attitudes, German reunification, J13, J16,

Cited by 139 publications

References 13 publications

The Effects of Teleworking on Housework Division and Well-Being of Couples

The Effects of Teleworking on Housework Division and Well-Being of Couples

DemoDiff: A Dataset for the Study of Family Change in Eastern (and Western) Germany

Persistence or Convergence? The East—West Tax-Morale Gap in Germany

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