How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German … fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East …. Thus, the demand shock did not only depress the aggregate fertility level but also changed the composition of mothers. My …

How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the … East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting di erential pressure for restructuring … an impact on completed fertility. …

took place in a concentrated period of time. Among the latter was a sharp fall in fertility rates, leading to a growing …

After the fall of the Berlin wall, the total fertility rate in East Germany tumbled from 1.7 (1989) to a stunning 0 … suggest that women postpone fertility when the wage penalty for time off work in the current period are high; and the … fertility decline and demonstrate that incentives in the labor market have a strong influence on fertility decisions. …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …

their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued … its fertility. In view of the results, we argue that an options based theory is perhaps a richer analytical paradigm for a … discussion of fertility decisions in a rapidly changing environment than the traditional Beckerian theory. -- falling fertility …

German reunifi cation to study empirically the relationship between job security and fertility. The civil servant … security and fertility emerges for men, the paper demonstrates a clear link between labor market and demographic outcomes for … causal impact of job security on fertility. It shows that female civil servants are not primarily a selected group of very …