East-West migration and gender: is there a double disadvantage vis-à-vis stayers?

Arbeitspapier

This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a disadvantage after they moved compared to both stayers and males. It employs panel data techniques to take account of unobserved heterogeneity. I find that migrant women after migration neither experience a drop in relative employment, nor lower relative hourly wages. They do, however, work less hours and have a lower annual income. The results also suggest that for them, the income effect dominates the substitution effect and they substitute market work with home production, specifically with childcare.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2810

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Binnenwanderung ; Regionale Arbeitsmobilität ; Geschlecht ; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit ; Neue Bundesländer ; Alte Bundesländer ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Zaiceva, Anzelika
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34589
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080401208
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ