Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility … probability of having a new child by 3.9 percentage points. Reduced fertility is only found at the intensive margin: job … parenthood, as this fertility effect does not appear for low-income and less-educated workers. …

Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility … probability of having a new child by 3.9 percentage points. Reduced fertility is only found at the intensive margin: job … parenthood, as this fertility effect does not appear for low-income and less-educated workers …

integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to analyse and directly compare fertility … in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high earnings. Females in Germany adapt their … fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their counterpartsin France. This is explained by …

earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their … harmonisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to … analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a period of 15 years. Strong evidence is …

The present study reports on results emerging from the research project «Fertility and Prosperity: Links between … countries and (b) a survey of fertility outcomes and family policies in a limited number of developed countries. The results … indicate that the decline in fertility observed in the past, through its impact on the size and age-composition of the labour …

Fertility rates have declined in all OECD countries throughout the last decades. Despite this common secular trend …, there is substantial heterogeneity both in the current level of birth rates and in the past development. Germany, Spain, and … Italy display lower fertility rates than France, the United Kongdom, and the Scandinavian countries. All countries use some …