German reunifi cation to study empirically the relationship between job security and fertility. The civil servant … security and fertility emerges for men, the paper demonstrates a clear link between labor market and demographic outcomes for … causal impact of job security on fertility. It shows that female civil servants are not primarily a selected group of very …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …

higher fertility rates. Overall, we conclude that comparisons of SWB within a single country provide valid information …. -- Subjective well-being ; regional disparities ; unemployment ; economic growth ; fertility rate …

their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued … its fertility. In view of the results, we argue that an options based theory is perhaps a richer analytical paradigm for a … discussion of fertility decisions in a rapidly changing environment than the traditional Beckerian theory …