Table 4 OLS wage regressions for West and East Germany by marital status and gender (GTUS sample)

Housework (hrs per week)

−0.0035

0.0089

−0.0016

0.0020

0.0010

0.0014

0.0004

−0.0015

(0.0039)

(0.0056)

(0.0029)

(0.0009)

(0.0058)

(0.0033)

(0.0032)

(0.0044)

Housework × part time

−0.0001

−0.0104

0.0004

−0.0079

0.0129

Omitted

0.0000

0.0109

(0.0045)

(0.0103)

(0.0033)

(0.0064)

(0.0161)

(0.0060)

(0.0095)

Part time

0.0567

0.0879

−0.0454

−0.0577

−0.3010

Omitted

−0.0937

−0.6230

(0.0946)

(0.1486)

(0.0830)

(0.1254)

(0.4171)

(0.1388)

(0.3434)

Employment status of partner

−0.1014

−0.1736

−0.1012

−0.0458

(0.0425)

(0.0287)

(0.1027)

(0.0792)

Years of schooling

0.0609

0.0600

0.0375

0.0404

0.0291

0.0046

0.0525

0.0277

(0.0102)

(0.0110)

(0.0059)

(0.0042)

(0.0129)

(0.0239)

(0.0119)

(0.0108)

Experience

0.0482

0.0426

0.0358

0.0201

0.0151

0.0209

0.0305

0.0199

(0.0103)

(0.0106)

(0.0101)

(0.0062)

(0.0135)

(0.0109)

(0.0118)

(0.0208)

Experience²

−0.0008

−0.0006

−0.0007

−0.0003

−0.0002

−0.0005

−0.0005

−0.0005

(0.0002)

(0.0002)

(0.0002)

(0.0001)

(0.0003)

(0.0005)

(0.0002)

(0.0004)

Number of children

0.0655

0.0485

−0.0204

0.0356

−0.0072

−0.0397

−0.0160

0.0202

(0.0424)

(0.0273)

(0.0243)

(0.0112)

(0.0699)

(0.0598)

(0.0407)

(0.0422)

Flexible working time

0.0465

0.1498

0.1019

0.0795

0.1359

−0.0970

0.1717

0.0030

(0.0537)

(0.0518)

(0.0357)

(0.0206)

(0.0836)

(0.0983)

(0.0662)

(0.0922)

Individuals

354

215

732

989

92

52

215

227

R ²

0.3502

0.4992

0.1349

0.3509

0.5010

0.4469

0.3372

0.1693

Adjusted R ²

0.3091

0.4447

0.1081

0.3361

0.3514

0.1941

0.2651

0.0797