, 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 …

-family conflicts. Unemployment increases the likelihood of family formation among women with a moderate or low level of education. This … men, which can be attributed to the inability to financially support a family. Among women, unemployment exerts a positive … does not, however, generally apply to French women or to highly educated women in Germany and the UK, who, when unemployed …

the probability of working in the period of time following the leave. Using data from ECHP, I select women who have a … the return to work in each country separately, I generalize the results, matching women with similar human capital … characteristics and fertility history from different countries and, consequently, under different parental leave regulations. Results …

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 …

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European …

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 …

while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides …

benefits in Germany. We further investigate how the reform affects the selection of women into motherhood and how that … no effects on second-order fertility. While the reform slightly changes the selection of mothers, this has little impact …