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Inequality of Educational Opportunity in East and West Germany: Convergence or Continued Differences?

open access: yesSociological Science, 2019
Diversity in education systems, and broader political and economic conditions, are commonly credited with international variation in inequality of educational opportunity (IEO).
Markus Klein   +2 more
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Single Motherhood in East and West Germany: What Can Explain the Differences? [PDF]

open access: yesThe European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018
The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine two transmission channels leading to single motherhood, namely out-of-partnership births and separations of couples ...
Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing
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Semantic Struggles in the Face of Crisis: ‘The West’ as Contested Key Concept in West German Parliamentary Debate (1973/74)

open access: yesRedescriptions, 2021
This article suggests to read West German parliamentary debate on the first oil crisis as a semantic struggle on the concept of the West. Drawing on latest research, the West is considered to be a narrated concept with its meaning being negotiated upon ...
Ann-Judith Rabenschlag
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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006 [PDF]

open access: yes
Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees.
Wagner, Joachim, Schnabel, Claus
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Kosmische Musik and Its Techno-Social Context [PDF]

open access: yesIASPM Journal, 2016
The electrification of music making in West Germany during the 1970s led to what is now often recognized as one of the most important developments in popular electronic music. In this article, the emergence of kosmische musik (“cosmic music”), a style of
Alexander C. Harden
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Characteristics of the Western European ecological group barley varieties in the North-Western region of the Russian Federation [PDF]

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences, 2021
In the North-West region, spring barley is the main grain fodder crop. The variety is an effective and most affordable means of increasing the harvest and quality of the grain.
Kovaleva Olga, Lukina Kseniia
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A (trans)national emotional community? Greek political songs and the politicisation of Greek migrants in West Germany in the 1960s and early 1970s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article examines the emotional standards and experiences connected with the entehno laiko music composed by Mikis Theodorakis that was immensely popular among left-wing Greek migrants, workers and students, living in West Germany in the 1960s and ...
Papadogiannis, Nikolaos
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Trends in gender differences in health at working ages among West and East Germans

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2019
Before 1990, Germany was divided for more than 40 years. While divided, significant mortality disparities between the populations of East and West Germany emerged.
Mine Kühn   +3 more
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Divided Berlin and Divided Germany in Young Adult Literature: Crossing Borders from the East to the West and Vice Versa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2022
In postwar Germany, inner-German borders were much disputed. While Germans widely deplored the division of their country and capital city, strong political forces in the East and the West struggled for their spheres of influence.
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer   +1 more
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Guerrilla Mothers and Distant Doubles. West German Feminists Look at China and Vietnam, 1968–1982

open access: yesZeithistorische Forschungen, 2015
Communist China and Vietnam looked like the future to many West German feminists in the years after 1968. This article reconstructs a lost history of influence, identification and emulation, tracing some of the ways that Chinese and Vietnamese communism ...
Quinn Slobodian
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