New article published in "Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik"
Andreas Weiland, together with Katja Möhring and Clara Overweg, examined the effects of the "motherhood penalty" on the net wealth and pension assets of women from West and East Germany born between 1937 and 1989. They found a considerable gap in statutory pension assets in West Germany, but not in East Germany. Here, pension revaluations primarily mitigate the differences between mothers with one or more children, but not between mothers and childless women. The disadvantage of mothers in terms of net wealth is also more pronounced in western Germany than in eastern Germany, although total wealth is lower in the east. In eastern Germany, the disadvantage mainly affects mothers with several births, while childless women and women with one child have similarly high assets.