This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …

the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …

all the way from early adulthood until old age, in large representative panel data sets from the Netherlands and Germany …

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …

, Italy and Germany, to see how the common feature of separate tracks at Secondary School level may produce different impacts …, where the aspiration to go to college is affected not only by the school type but also (in the case of Italy only) by … parental education. We then move to country-specific data sets (ISTAT 2001 for Italy and GSOEP 2001 and 2002 for Germany) to …

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …