that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the … existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of … 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second …

-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past decade. We assess the …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …

The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the … question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at …) of religiosity (rather than religious affiliation) on fertility. Fertility is related to the various dimensions of …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …