To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime …

aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports counter-cyclical teenage fertility. …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …