explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility … in the two different institutional and normative contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Using the German Socio …

This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain … complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …

for the realization of short-term childbearing intentions is tested in the low-fertility context of Germany. Our …This paper studies the short-term fertility intentions of women and men and their subsequent behavior. On the one hand …, the predictive strength of fertility intentions is of interest. On the other hand, the most important determinants that …

-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the effects of unemployment on fertility vary by socio …, our results show that there are strong educational gradients in the unemployment and fertility nexus, and that the … relationship between unemployment and fertility varies by socioeconomic group. Fertility tends to be lower during periods of …