Gender Inequality in the Life Course: Social Change and Stability in West Germany, 1975-1995

by Hannah Brueckner

How do women fare in a society that is characterized by a set of institutions that promote income stability over the life course and thereby maintain and even amplify status difference? Using recently issued public files of social security records with longitudinal earnings data of well over half a million persons, this book describes gender inequality in earnings and labor market participation in contemporary Germany between 1975 and 1995.Because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202306925
• ISBN13: 9780202306926
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary