This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of … mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …

welfare results. -- Discrete Choice ; Consumer Surplus ; Nonparametric Estimation ; Transalpine Freight …

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH … model performs well, the estimation for the German stock index could be significantly improved by an extension which follows …