Cigno, Alessandro; Casolaro, Luca; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2000
Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive effect … on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system's own contributory base, because it reduces …