Pattems of entry into first marriage among recent birth cohorts (1952 - 1967) of young adults are examined based upon … timing oftheir entry into marriage. Labor force integration - concluding one's education and entering the labor force - is … interesting developments: the tendency for American men and women to enter marriage early, relative to their West German peers …

the timing of marriage, must probably be understood as the principal origin of different patterns of fertility across … into motherhood and first marriage is based. Individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are … merged with a rich set of district-level contextual data to estimate first birth and marriage probabilities of western German …

the timing of marriage, must probably be understood as the principal origin of different patterns of fertility across … into motherhood and first marriage is based. Individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are … merged with a rich set of district-level contextual data to estimate first birth and marriage probabilities of western German …

the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …