unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on …This special collection of Demographic Research is devoted to the issue of how economic and employment uncertainties … relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in …

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 …This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain …

unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on …This special collection of Demographic Research is devoted to the issue of how economic and employment uncertainties … relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in …

of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels …. The number of births per year fell 60 percent. The period total fertility rate (TFR) reached a low of 0.8. Since the … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

conduct cross-national analyses of recent union and fertility behavior over time. A team of researchers called the Nonmarital …, and Russia; the 2003 Dutch Fertility and Family Survey; and the British Household Panel Survey. …

This paper validates the fertility and union histories of the German Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). One major … result from this validation is that the fertility of the older GGS-cohorts is too low, while it is too high for the younger … cohorts. For partnership histories, we find a similar bias. In sum, the GGS gives wrong cohort fertility and marriage trends …

-specific fertility rates for the period 2001 to 2008. Hospital statistics include information on births that took place in German … assessment is that the hospital data are a valuable source for generating order-specific fertility rates, regardless of whether …

particular are postponing fertility. Women with a relatively low education, by contrast, are accelerating family formation … marriage and fertility behavior therefore was expected to be severely affected by the upheavals following unification. And … to the postponement of family formation after unification. The empirical analysis suggests that highly educated women in …