1: I. Medical Department, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; 2: IV. Medical Department, University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany; 3: Department of Medicine (Cancer Research), West German Cancer Centre, University Hospital, Essen, Germany; 4: Radiotherapy Department, University Rostock, Rostock, Germany: 5: Radiotherapy Department, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankf...

BACKGROUND Health insurance claims data are increasingly used for health services research in Germany. Hospital diagnoses in these data are coded according to the International Classification of Diseases, German modification (ICD-10-GM). Due to the historical division into West and East Germany, different coding practices might persist in both former parts. Additionally, the introduction of Dia...

The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences in the ...

Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector, Imaging, Particle Therapy, Hofmannstr. 26, 91052 Erlangen, Germany Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center and Department of Radiation Oncology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 450, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Present address: Department of Radiation Oncology, Unive...

A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty. The analys...

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory betweenand withingroup components as well as an “overlapping” index for the different sup-populations. We apply this method together with a jackk...

In her paper, "Television and Politics in the Former East Germany," Claudia Dittmar analyzes how in the former East Germany (GDR) while television audience was restricted severly by government, at the same time West German broadcasts acquired a substantial audience and what the impact of these broadcasts had on the audience. West German television programs enjoyed a high level of popularity wit...

This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West Germany from 2007 to 2011 has improved the subjective wellbeing for mothers and fathers with a youngest child in this age group. We extend existing cross-sectional country comparisons and single country policy evaluations by comparing regional variations over time in two different...

October 2008 Preliminary version Please do not quote! Abstract. This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is well known that individuals do not mate randomly according to social and cultural traits. Marrying within a socio-economic group can lead to polarization and exacerbating economic inequality. In the US, there is a co...

1 3 Medical Department, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany 2 Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany 3 Experimental Clinical Chemistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden 4 current address: Department of Medicine (Cancer Research), West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germ...