policy is considered to be a failure in terms of its influence on fertility. German family policy has had a traditional …Germany is a low-fertility country with a rapidly ageing population, and will remain so for the foreseeable future … forms the basis for widespread decisions against family formation. The desired number of children has become low and family …

German Family Panel (pairfam), which collected information on the partnership status at first birth using two different … methods. The first method is based on data on partnership and fertility histories collected retrospectively. The second method …

economic hardship than nuclear families in France and western Germany. Socio-demographic differences between family types …-economic composition of different family types. For the Russian Federation and eastern Germany, we do not find any statistically …

The challenges women face in reconciling their work and family responsibilities are at the heart of current … explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility …

complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …

Understanding how the process of childbearing influences parental well-being has great potential to explain variation … in fertility. However, most research on fertility and happiness uses cross-sectional data, hindering causal conclusions … than men. These results, which are similar in Britain and Germany, suggest that childbearing increases parental happiness …

and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the norm in eastern Germany but the exception in western Germany. A … decades, have been put forth. Here, we show that the divide in demographic behavior regarding fertility and marriage pre … German Democratic Republic had in average roughly twice the level of non-marital fertility from at least since the middle of …

relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in … unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on …

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the … paper is to better understand the persistence of these differences by studying the fertility behaviour of migrants from the …