Politico-Economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State Socialism

By Pamela Campa, Michel Serafinelli. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019

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Abstract This paper investigates whether attitudes are affected by politico-economic regimes. We exploit the efforts of state socialist regimes to promote women's economic inclusion. Using the German partition after World War II, we show that women from East-Germany are more likely to place importance on career success compared to women from West-Germany. Further, the population at large in East Germany is less likely to hold traditional gender role attitudes. Examining possible mechanisms, we find that the change in attitudes under the East German regime was larger in areas where the growth in female employment was larger. A comparison of Eastern versus Western Europe confirms these results.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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• Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “…to state socialism appears to have led to the adoption of more progressive gender-role attitudes, increased 21 women’s preferences for work, and a shift away from the male breadwinner norm (Bauernschuster and Rainer, 2012; Beblo and Görges, 2018; Campa and Serafinelli, 2019; Senik et al., 2020).”