Germany, as in other European countries, day care subsidies are mainly provided ‘in-kind’. Municipalities and NPOs provide day … of state-funded day care in Germany using microdata on households and data on the expenditure of public-funded day care … bedürfen. Wie in einigen anderen europäischen Staaten werden auch in Deutschland bestimmte Anbieter von …

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain …

Germany, the U.K., France, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Israel. …

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous …

Some 20 years after unification, the contrast between East and West Germany provides a unique natural experiment for … of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

Familiengründung in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Seit der Wende sind die bildungsspezifischen Unterschiede im Geburtenverhalten in Ost-deutschland …

This paper analyzes the relationship between children’s day care and fertility in Germany. First, different modes of … overall institutional constraints of day care in (western) Germany prevent the compatibility of childrearing and employment …