This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … possible channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The … results show that woman's own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females …

Increases in female employment and falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over … the last 30 years the US total fertility rate has been fairly stable while female wages have continued to grow. Over the … supply and, due to higher opportunity cost, lower fertility, they also lead to a partial reallocation of home production from …

Since 1960 South Africa has seen a steep fall in fertility levels and currently the total fertility rate is the lowest … on the African continent. Given the high prevailing levels of fertility in African countries, a better understanding of … the factors behind the fertility transition can be valuable not only for South Africa, but also more widely for other …

mortality and high fertility to an equilibrium with low mortality and fewer children, lower dependency ratios, higher investment … rapid fertility decline, so that the long-run effects of the demographic transition on inequality remain ambiguous. …

The economic theory of fertility acknowledges the importance of old age pensions for individual fertility decisions …. However, theoretical predictions regarding the sign of this relation differ from altruistic fertility models (positive) to non …-altruistic fertility models (negative). First, a cointegration analysis is employed in order to check if there is a long-term equilibrium …

fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …

predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the 'old-age security' to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with 'old-age security' even for contemporary fertility. …

demographic transition in Taiwan, and to examine whether fertility decline is consistent with Caldwell’s wealth flow theory, which … states that fertility decline is caused by reduced benefits of children. The paper describes a method of estimating the …