Similarities in policy framework related to female worker in two Germanys

Previous studies investigated the reason why female labour force participation rate in eastern Germany after the Unification remain much higher than that in western Germany without the supportive institutions in GDR(). Indeed, vanishment of these institutions and the introduction of the institutions of FRG had large impact on female labour force participation. If these different situations were supported by the institutions which were constructed with completely different policy framework, the newly introduced institutions in former GDR were completely different and the differences could not continue so much. Here I investigate the reason of continuity of difference in female labour force participation between eastern Germany and western Germany comparing the policy framework concerning about female workers between two Germany.