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Examines the improvement in women's educational attainment across cohorts & its influence on the process of family formation in West Germany, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, a representative longitudinal database for the former West Germany. An exponential model is used to specify the rates of entry into marriage & motherhood as a function of time-constant & time-dependent covariates. It is found that women's average levels of educational attainment have steadily risen from one birth cohort to another, & enrollment in the educational system has extended over the life-course. It is concluded that women's educational attainment accounts in part for changes in family formation. 10 Tables, 3 Figures, 27 References. M. Wagner

Marxism in West Germany has suffered the estrangement of Marxism from the labor movement, now represented primarily by a social democratic party with little theoretical content. However, Marxist thought is now being studied in the Us. The best known approach is that of critical Marxism; however, there is an almost obsessive hostility between critical & orthodox Marxists over state monopoly capitalism & other issues. Orthodox Marxism also tends to be linked with the view that the Soviet Union represents at least a partially socialist society. One point on which both schools agree is that social democracy & trade unionism in West Germany are totally worthless for Marxist aims. The conclusion in fact appears exaggerated. W. H. Stoddard.