Das Buch geht von drei möglichen Strategien zur langfristigen Bewältigung der Folgen des Demografischen Wandels aus und untersucht eine davon eingehend: die Erhöhung der Kinderzahl. Die Autoren stellen die Frage, warum die Geburtenziffer in Deutschland als zu gering erachtet wird und leiten...

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of children may delay emancipation. We then provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for...

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms' hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal of this paper is to fill in this gap and in particular to assess whether the provision of...