, West Germany, and the UK (1994-2001). The results highlight weak negative effects of unemployment on family formation among … effect on the propensity to have a first child in Germany and the UK, where institutional settings aggravate work … does not, however, generally apply to French women or to highly educated women in Germany and the UK, who, when unemployed …

Die vorliegende Studie dokumentiert die Resultate des Forschungsprojekts "Fertility and Prosperity: Links between … Deutschland, Frankreich, dem Vereinigten Königreich und Schweden wird diese Einsicht weiter konkretisiert. …

fertility behavior and productivity growth. They present theoretical arguments to the effect that public pension coverage as … such will reduce aggregate fertility and may raise aggregate household savings. They argue further that public pensions, as … the policies under discussion. Their policy proposals to address declines in fertility and productivity growth include the …

explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories before and after the birth of a child using large British … and Germany and suggest that up to two, children increase happiness, and mostly among those who postpone childbearing …. This pattern is consistent with the fertility behavior emerging during the second demographic transition and provides new …

countries (the US, West Germany, Denmark, Italy, and the United Kingdom), whose fertility rates span the observed fertility …Parity-specific probabilities of having a next birth are estimated from national fertility data and are compared with … can be measured, the possibility that child costs affect both the quantum and the tempo of fertility, the relatively small …

-risks be related to labour market performance? In other words, to what extent do the fertility decisions of successfully … men and women, especially in Germany. -- Fertilty ; first-birth ; occupational integration ; cross-national comparison …