Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …

. Our findings confirm the presence of wage rigidities in Europe: first, collective pay agreements reduce the probability of …

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …

regression controlling for individual heterogeneity, and the comparison of results for Europe and the US, reveals that a … significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …

This paper investigates the relationship between public and private wages in the five largest euro area countries for … the period 1997-2017. The analysis shows that there exists a positive and significant response of private wages to a …, Spain, Italy and non-significant in Germany and the Netherlands). Interestingly, the response of private wages is found to …

This paper looks at public and private sector wages interactions since the 1960s in the euro area, euro area countries … public and private sector wages over the business cycle; this finding is robust across methods and measures of wages and … quite general across countries. Second, we show evidence of long-run relationships between public and private sector wages …