We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …

employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … involved in childcare and rearing in 2002 than in 1988. In general, as women's work time increased, substitutes for their …

. Specifically, we find that the relative wage position, higher tenure, a combination of vocational training and university education …

'generation 1.5' (migrants arriving as children) and the second generation. It is stronger for women with low education and for …Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin-a proxy for … cultural imprint-influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total …

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …