this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …

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 …

affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German …

decision making to human fertility behavior. Theoretical emphasis has been given to the effects of the costs of parental tine … time, especially the value of the wife's time. One important objection to static theories of fertility is their failure to … theoretical and econometric model of fertility behavior within a sequential stochastic framework. The principal contribution of …

This article demonstrates the value of microdata for understanding the effect of wages on life cycle fertility dynamics …. Conventional estimates of neoclassical economic fertility models obtained from linear aggregate time series regressions are widely …. This article demonstrates, that when neoclassical models of fertility are estimated on microdata using methods that …