We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

The gender pay gap and the gender gap in employment remains persistent in Europe despite the basic assertion of gender … equality under EU law. We assess the factors that influence the gender pay gap and gender employment gap across European … generalized method of moment model (GMM). The main conclusions confirm that tertiary education significantly reduces gender pay …

logistic regression analyses, we find differences in the association of educational level and fertility plans by gender and … available Generations and Gender Survey round 2 (GGS-II) and the German FReDA-GGS data. In a second step, we estimate the number …

the fertility rate, the timing and the spacing of births. First, theoretical models on the interaction between family … policy and the fertility rate are analyzed. In addition, experiences from other European countries are evaluated. It is … concluded that the new legislation is an important step towards a higher fertility rate and a shorter spacing of births, whereas …

fertility patterns contrast with trends in many high-income countries. We argue that Germany's robust social policies were …Although abortion trends can be highly informative for understanding fertility reactions amid COVID-19 pandemic, this … perspective is rarely taken yet. In contrast to many other countries, Germany has reached above-average fertility rates in the …

, West Germany, and the UK (1994-2001). The results highlight weak negative effects of unemployment on family formation among … men, which can be attributed to the inability to financially support a family. Among women, unemployment exerts a positive … effect on the propensity to have a first child in Germany and the UK, where institutional settings aggravate work-family …

disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …