workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of … the population. Reinvention of human capital policies is required to avoid increasing welfare state dependency among the … entail strong incentives to retire early and human capital is thus written off too quickly. -- Skill formation ; human …

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of … women at lower educational levels. -- Employment ; fertility ; childcare ; parental leave …

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility …

of substitution between investments in one period and stocks of skills in that period to assess the benefits of early … of substitution between investments in one period and stocks of skills in that period to assess the benefits of early …