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- halshs: halshs-03247392
- doi: 10.1093/ej/uez057
- WOS: 000582321200011
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D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics/D.D1.D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty/I.I3.I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination P - Economic Systems/P.P5 - Comparative Economic Systems/P.P5.P51 - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic AnthropologySujets proches
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Quentin Lippmann et al., « Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1093/ej/uez057
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Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the German Democratic Republic’s gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only because of its higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can earn more than their husbands without having to increase their number of housework hours, put their marriage at risk or withdraw from the labour market. By contrast, the norm of higher male income, and its consequences, are still prevalent in West Germany.