aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility …We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which …

Increasing longevity causes an upward trend in the dependency ratio in many countries. This raises concerns about the …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …

on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a … flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register …