, on fertility decisions and labour supply of native females in Germany. Specifcally, we consider individual data of native … women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge them with the data on the share of female immigrants and other … women to work longer hours and positively affects the probability to have a child. This effect strengthens for (medium …

This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at … different times. We find that women from countries where the aggregate birth rate is high tend to have significantly more …

Good forecasts for future fertility developments are of high importance in political planning, especially regarding … measures in social insurance. Fertility is the main driver of demographic change, since small fertility rates lead to a … on a quasi-three principal component model are fitted to the age- and sex-specific fertility rates (ASSFR). Age …