that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …

This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate …

data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains information on …

fertility. These findings suggest that insurance motives underpin the dynamics of women's work participation. Examination of … markets, fertility timing and child outcomes. …

We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the … existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of … 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second …