electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social … typically found to be more averse to immigration. However, cross-sectional investigations may confound age with cohort effects …. This investigation uses the 1999-2008 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to separate the effect of age on immigration …

electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social … typically found to be more averse to immigration. However, crosssectional investigations may confound age with cohort effects …. This investigation uses the 1999-2008 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to separate the effect of age on immigration …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

Micro-level relationships between union formation or dissolution and childbearing have implications for fertility that … variation and change around replacement level fertility. On the one hand, union dissolution reduces opportunities for conceiving …' children. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility levels is unknown and will depend …

biosocial pathways playing an important role in shaping the fertility-health-nexus. Specifically, the Western German "male … breadwinner" model of specialisation appears to have buffered the stresses associated with childrearing, whereas fertility off the …

of children delays the timing. The model can be used to predict upper bound fertility rates, when the expected divorce …

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …