Recent analyses of the consequences of the economic restructur-ing of the1980s in the United States and Germany have paid little attention to the integration of young people into the labor force. However, it is at this point that private and public institutional actors have the greatest...

The recent controversy surrounding the confluence of measured intelligence, socioeconomic status and race has focused on establishing and denying causal links between individual attributes. Far less attention has been paid to the institutional structures where the relationships between...

Vital statistics indicate that the fertility rate in East Germany dropped sharply after German unification; moreover, it has not yet rebounded but remains stable at a low level. This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine births in the former German Democratic...