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"Of course it is quite impossible for a present day sociologist to tell with any degree of precision whether West and East Germany will eventually diverge or converge, and if so, when and in what direction. In any case, if the situation will be inspected again in a generation's time, what we shall find then will not be the result of deterministic mechanisms. It will have been influenced by purposeful human interventions which are hard to foresee. Therefore we shall remain prudent in this respect. Rather, we want to tackle the question in a roundabout and indirect way, by looking at a very special, but significant case of labour market development - the case of female part-time work.[...] On the basis of the data discussed in this paper, we do not see how the propagation of women's part time work could compensate for the steady loss of jobs in both parts of Germany. That is, if one were to assume that the reduction of working time could be an answer to the endemic unemployment problem in contemporary Germany, this reduction could not be archived by means of a further expansion of female part-time work. In West Germany, younger women are more strongly oriented to full-time work than older women. Therefore, the number of women prepared to opt for part-time employment is likely to decrease in the future. In East Germany, the potential for female part-time work on a voluntary basis is even more limited." Die Autoren verwenden das im ALLBUS (1991,1996) erhobene Item "Is it much better, if men are fully employed and women stay at home to look after the household and the children?" um Einstellungsunterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschen, Männern und Frauen, und den beiden Zeitpunkten (1991,1996) zu illustrieren. Neben dem ALLBUS greifen die Autoren u.a. auf Daten des SOEP, und des ISSP zurück
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